These are all Erdogan's counterCandids in today's election

It will be the first elections held in the state of emergency in that country after a coup effort in July 2016.

Early presidential and parliamentary elections will be held in Turkey on Sunday, June 24th. Following the adoption of constitutional changes in a referendum held in 2017, the elected president will also be head of state and head of the Turkish government, taking a second role from the prime minister's office abolished. In this way, the candidate who wins presidential elections will have a wide and new power, and experts say the winner has great chances of being Recep Tayip Erdogan. Polls show, however, that its popularity is declining, newspapers broadcast.net

The elections were originally scheduled for November 2019, but after a referendum last year, after which Erdogan replaced a parliamentary system with an executive presidency in Russian style, speculation was made that they would be declared early.

Turkey's current head of state, Recep Tayip Erdogan, who almost 16 years ago won in all elections in which he participated.

Options claim the political gap in Turkey is bigger today than ever, and if Erdogan wins presidential elections, he is believed to be the peak of his political career.

Those who carefully pursue his pre-election campaign claim that it was never more aggressive and that as never before, Erdogan made more mistakes in his presentation, while some experts even suspect his victory.

Pre-election investigations have shown that Erdogan will receive between 45 per cent and 55 per cent of support from Turkish citizens, but reality is quite different, because, according to many interpretations, Turkey is on the side of a strong grip and in case of secret voting, Erdogan could gain more than 10 per cent less support.

According to CNN, Erdogan is used to winning the elections. He dominated Turkish politics for 16 years after being elected prime minister in 2003. After that, he was in the same position for two more mandates, where he became president in 2014.

With Sunday's elections, Turkey moves from the parliamentary system to that presidential one, and Erdogan wins, the prime minister's office will disappear and it will dominate legislation, judiciary and executive power. Besides Erdogan, five other candidates, including one woman, are participating in the presidential election race.

They are Muharrem Indze, Meral Akesner, Selahattin Demirtas, Temel Karamolaoglu and Dog Perincek.

Recep Tayip Erdogan, 64, was born in Istanbul, and his family originated in the eastern Turkish town of Rize. He spent the first 13 years of his life in that country until they returned to the city of Bosphorus. After that, he helped his family by selling lemonade on the street. After the party's ban, Erdogan faced a trial for inciting religious hatred and was sentenced to prison. He is also the founder of the Justice and Development Party (AKP). Just one year after the 2002 elections, the party won parliamentary elections and the AKP formed the government, even though Erdogan did not win a parliamentary seat, even though he is the most popular politician in the country.

After winning a parliamentary mandate in a repeat election in one of the provinces, Erdogan is opening the door to the prime minister's cabinet, as a member of his party and Prime Minister Abdullah Gul, resigns.

He served as prime minister from March 14th 2003 to August 28, 2014, after which he became president of the state.

On the night between July 15th and 16th 2016, a group of rebel officers from a part of the Turkish Army tried to overthrow Erdogan's government with a coup and bring power to the military junta, though a considerable number of citizens and experts thought the coup was created by Erdogan in order to assume full authority in Turkey.

After a coup, he became even stronger. In Sunday's elections, he wants to achieve the rule of a legitimate man in the election, as he narrowly won last year's referendum, with which he replaced the parliamentary system with the Russian-style executive presidency.

Muharrem Indze

Muharem Indze, 54, the candidate of the secular opposition Republican People's Party, known as the CHP, was elected presidential candidate in May. He was quoted as the only candidate that could win Erdogan in the elections.

It promises more independent judges, greater personal freedoms and ends excessive state spending. He is known for his fervent speeches and criticism of Erdogan's party. Media say he has brought a charisma that has been missing for many years to the party.

Indze's campaigns can be described as guides and different. He often danced and sang along with traditional songs in the rally, and on one occasion he was riding on a bicycle in response to Erdogan's excessive spending. It urges the Turkish people to choose between freedom and fear, between national prestige and national loneliness, between establishing religious practice and freedom of choice, between opening and xenophobia. Independent polls show Indez's support has already increased to 30 per cent.

Meral Akesner

The only woman in the race is Meral Akesner, a political veteran who in the late 1990s was the interior minister. As conservative nationalist, Akesner threatens to steal Erdogan's voter support.

She is the leader of the IYA Party (Good Party). During the campaign, she said most would counter wrong management of the economy by the AKP.

If she wins, she will be the first female president, but not the first head of state in Turkey. Before that, Tansa Ciler was elected in 1993 as the first woman's prime minister.

Western media say that abroad it is known as the “Turkish steel station”, while in Turkey it is known as Axena (the myth of wolves protecting Turkish tribes from danger).

Some people call me Sister, but there are many young people who call me” Mother Meral “and I like being a mother,” said Akesner.

Selahattin Demirtas

Politian Prokurdic and rival of Turkey's current President Recep Tayip Erdogan, Selahatin Demirtas (45), lead his campaign in the presidential election from prison.

The former human rights activist, who was imprisoned in Edirne in western Turkey, was arrested in 2016 for alleged links to Kurdish extremists who are banned in Turkey.

Demirtas faces a 142-year prison sentence on charges of leading a terrorist organisation and other crimes he denies.

His campaign focused on improving quality and diversity, and its only public presentation during the campaign was the 10 minute speech made on Turkish state radio TRT.

In his speech, Demirtas evidently urged Turkish voters to unite against Erdogan and criticised the current president for threatening to restore the death penalty after an unsuccessful coup.

Temel Karamolaoglu

Temel Karamolaoglu, 77, is a Turkish politician who heads the Felicity Party since 2016. A prominent Islamist, Karamolaoglu, was the mayor of Siva from 1989 to 1995 and twice served as Suwas lawyer from 1977 to 1980 and from 1996 to 2002.

He was once an ally and a friend of Erdogan. Both were members of the Peace Party in the 1980s, and they fought together as Muslim politicians who sought to find a place for religion under Turkey's aggressive secular constitution.

Today, he wants to defeat Erdogan in Sunday's election.

Dog Perincek

Dog Perincek (76), a politician and lawyer, who has been president of the left nationalist nationalist Party since 2015. He was arrested after the coup in 1971 and 1980 and was released after several years in prison.

He was president of the Socialist Party in 1991, which won 0.44 per cent of the vote in the same year. This party was banned in 1992.

In the recent 2015 elections, his Patriotic Party won 0.25% of the vote. Besides being a politician, he's a publisher and author, and he wrote over 40 books.