About this site
turkishelections.com explains how Türkiye elects its government and how that government is put together, for readers who need the rules rather than the news: journalists working a Turkish story on deadline, students and researchers, and members of the diaspora following a vote from abroad.
What is here
- the constitutional framework following the 2017 amendments, and what that reform changed;
- the legislative, executive, and judicial branches as currently organized;
- the high judicial bodies: the Constitutional Court, Yargıtay, Danıştay, the Court of Jurisdictional Disputes, and the Court of Accounts;
- the electoral system, the Supreme Election Council (YSK), and voting from abroad;
- political parties, voting rights, and party finance under Law No. 2820;
- every Turkish government from 1920 to the present, numbered as the TBMM numbers them.
Who publishes it
The site is published by TurkishPress.com, a news and analysis desk covering Türkiye and its region, and it is the reference half of that work: TurkishPress reports what happened, this site sets out the standing law and institutions that reporting takes for granted. Neither is affiliated with the Republic of Türkiye, any of its institutions, or any political party. The site does not advocate for a party or a candidate, and on questions Turkish politics has not settled, it says so instead of picking a side.
How things get sourced
Claims here are built on the Constitution and on numbered laws wherever a numbered law exists, with the article cited in the text so a reader can go check it (the Sources page lists what is used). Figures that only an institution can settle come from that institution: seat counts from the Assembly’s own register, cabinet posts from the Presidency, election results from the YSK. Where a news report and an official source disagree, the official source wins. Where a fact cannot be confirmed against a source of that standard, the page says it is unconfirmed rather than printing a number that looks authoritative and is not.
Turkish institutional names are kept in Turkish and italicized, with an English translation at first use.
Currency, and how to report an error
Most of this site changes only when the law changes. A few things change constantly: who holds a ministry, who chairs a party, how many seats each party has. Those carry an “as of” date so you can judge for yourself whether to trust them, and the date is the honest one, moved forward only when the figures were actually checked again.
Corrections are welcome and are made in place, with the page’s date stamp moved forward. Write to hello@mersina.com, naming the page and, if you have it, the official source. Pointers to primary sources worth adding, and permission or privacy questions, go to the same address.
History
The domain has been in use since 2003. The version that ran until 2017 described the parliamentary republic, a system that no longer exists: the April 2026 rebuild rewrote every page for the executive presidency, took in the 2022 electoral-law amendments, dropped the abolished military courts, and added the pages on the YSK, the 2017 reform, and voting from abroad. The figures were checked again in July 2026, against the Assembly and the Presidency directly.
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