For the first time presidential and parliamentary votes take place on the same day. There are six candidates for president. If no one wins more than 50 percent of the vote in Sunday's poll, the top two will be involved in a run-off. And whoever becomes president will be assuming enhanced powers approved in a referendum last year.
These are not easy times. Turkey's been in a state of emergency since a failed coup attempt in 2016 and the economy is in crisis. So could there be a surprise? And what would that mean for Turkey's future?
Presenter: Martine Dennis | Guests Muhittin Ataman - Editor of Insight Turkey and Director of the SETA Think Tank Education and Social Policy; Fadi Hakura - Associate Fellow in the Europe Programme at Chatham House; Ozgur Ozdamar - Professor in the Depatment of International Relations at Bilkent University