Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan has announced his candidacy in the presidential elections to be held next June.
"I am the candidate of the People's Alliance, the elections will be next June. Bay Kemal (leader of Turkey's main opposition Republican People's Party, Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu), make your name public. Come on!", RIA Novosti quoted Erdoğan.
Together with the presidential elections, parliamentary elections will also be held. The ruling Justice and Development Party and the Nationalist Movement Party previously formed the People's Alliance. Earlier, Turkish nationalist leader Devlet Bahçeli said that Erdoğan would be the People's Alliance's candidate in the upcoming elections. Erdoğan himself hasn't commented on his nomination for a long time.
