Leftists, liberals and minorities line up against ruling party for Sunday’s Turkish snap elections | Democracy, elections and voting at Democracy Chronicles

On a warm sunny Saturday in Ankara, one week after the deadliest terrorist attack in the history of modern Turkey, several dozen workers, writers, artists, students and opposition politicians turned out at the site of the bombing to commemorate the dead and issue a warning. A few metres from a street pock-marked by the blast, they…

In Turkey’s general election on Sunday President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) hopes to at last be able to form a government after five months’ … Applause and cheers greeted Idris Balukent and Felenaz Ugar on Diyarbakir’s Melik Ahmed Street and shopkeepers said they hoped the HDP would increase its vote on Sunday,…