Turkey to hold crucial presidential, parliamentary elections on June 24

There are six presidential candidates: Meral Aksener from Good (IYI) Party, Selahattin Demirtas from Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), Recep Tayyip Erdogan from ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), Muharrem Ince from Republican People's Party (CHP), Temel Karamollaoglu from the Felicity (Saadet) Party and Dogu Perincek from the Patriotic (Vatan) Party.

Two alliances were formed ahead of the parliamentary polls. The first is the People's Alliance of ruling AKP and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP).

The second is the Nation Alliance made up of the main opposition secular CHP, the center-right Good Party and the conservative Felicity Party.

The pro-Kurdish HDP, Kurdish Free Cause (Huda-Par) Party and the Patriotic Party will take part in the polls individually.

The turnout of the Turkish elections is generally high, ranging between 80 and 85 percent.

A total of 3 million Turks abroad eligible to vote in more than 50 countries have been called to the polls and nearly half of them cast their ballots, according to figures released by electoral officials.

Erdogan is the most popular Turkish politician, and is likely to win the presidential race, according to public opinion surveys.

It looks like he will easily win in the first round, while a second-round race against Ince or Aksener, if any, still favors the incumbent president.

There is also a very real possibility that Erdogan will win the presidency for five more years but lose the majority of parliament to the opposition, which has promised to roll back the constitutional amendments passed last year.