{"id":35434,"date":"2023-05-16T09:41:54","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T04:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=35434"},"modified":"2025-04-21T06:43:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T01:13:19","slug":"turkey-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/turkey-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>What\u2019s in today\u2019s article?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Why in news?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>T\u00fcrkiye&#8217;s electoral system<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Political system of Turkey<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Why in news?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The name of Turkey&#8217;s new President is unlikely to be revealed for another two weeks as the election in Turkey is headed for a run-off.\n<ul>\n<li>A run-off vote is a second round of voting that takes place when no candidate receives more than half of the presidential vote.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Neither the incumbent Recep Tayyip Erdogan nor his challenger Kemal Kilicdaroglu cleared the 50% threshold needed to avoid a second round.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>T\u00fcrkiye&#8217;s electoral system<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Mixed system<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>T\u00fcrkiye&#8217;s electoral system is a <u>mixed system, a combination of both proportional representation and majority voting<\/u>.\n<ul>\n<li>In proportional representation the number of seats held by a political group or party in a legislative body is determined by the number of popular votes received.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>A majority vote is valid for the presidential electio<\/strong>n and it simply means <u>obtaining more than half of the national vote share<\/u>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>The two-ballot system<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>One is to elect a president. And the other is meant for voting members of Parliament from each electoral district.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>The threshold requirement<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>According to a new election law passed in April 2022, to enter parliament, a political party must receive a minimum of 7 percent of the national vote.<\/li>\n<li>The law permits the formation of alliances between different political parties.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Therefore, any party may be able to secure a seat in parliament if they form an alliance that collectively receives over 7 percent of the vote across any district in T\u00fcrkiye.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Choosing the president<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Turkish citizens elect their president separately from the parliament, using a two-round majority system.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>If no candidate wins a majority of votes in the first round, the top two candidates compete in a second round of voting where one candidate should get more than 50 percent to be elected.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Frequency of election<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Turkey holds simultaneous presidential and parliamentary elections every five years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>\u00a0<\/h2>\n<h2><strong>Political system of Turkey<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Turkey transitioned from a parliamentary to a presidential system in July 2018, a month after Erdogan won the presidential election.<\/li>\n<li>The powers of the president were broadened after a 2017 referendum approving the change to an executive presidency.<\/li>\n<li>The post of prime minister was abolished and the president also became the head of government.<\/li>\n<li>In the new system, voters elect the president directly.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1) What is Presidential system?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>A presidential system is a form of government in which a president serves as the head of state and the head of government. In this system, the president is elected directly by the people or through an electoral college for a fixed term and holds significant executive powers.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Q2)<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>What is mixed electoral system?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>A mixed electoral system, also known as a hybrid electoral system, combines elements of both proportional representation (PR) and plurality\/majoritarian systems. It is a method of allocating seats in a legislative body that aims to strike a balance between proportional representation and geographic representation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-global\/turkey-second-election-may-28-erdogan-kilicdaroglu-8610004\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Why is Turkey likely to hold a second election on May 28 to elect its President?<\/u><\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2023\/5\/12\/turkey-elections-a-guide-on-turkeys-electoral-system\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Aljazeera<\/u><\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.trtworld.com\/magazine\/6-things-to-know-about-t%C3%BCrkiye-s-electoral-system-66437\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>TRTWorld<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey transitioned from a parliamentary to a presidential system in July 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":35435,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-35434","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-mains-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}