2023 Turkish presidential election candidate nominations

On 9 June 2022, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the leader of the Justice and Development Party and the incumbent president since 2014, announced that he would be a candidate in the 2023 presidential election.

[6] Mustafa Şentop, Ersan Şen, Metin Feyzioğlu and other lawyers[7] said that the 2018 election was Erdoğan's first term, arguing that a new office was formed, apart from the name similarity, as the presidential system was adopted in 2018 following a constitutional referendum.

[23] In the 2019 local elections and the repeat Istanbul mayoral election, the presidential candidacy debates continued about Ekrem İmamoğlu, who won against the AK Party candidate Binali Yıldırım twice and won the Istanbul mayorship that the AK Party held since 2004.

[31] Peoples' Democratic Party parliamentary group Deputy Chairman Meral Danış Beştaş said that they were against Mansur Yavaş's candidacy.

[33][34] Orhun Erktürkmen, who is responsible for the youth policies of the Good Party, came out in support of the candidacies of İmamoğlu and Yavaş.

[36] On 3 March 2023, the Good Party officially decided to leave the Table of Six because it did not support Kılıçdaroğlu as the joint candidate.

[37] On the same day, Meral Akşener called for Ekrem İmamoğlu and Mansur Yavaş to be candidates in her statement.

After this call, 5 CHP mayors, including Ekrem İmamoğlu and Mansur Yavaş, met with Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu.

[42] Area Research head Murat Karan claimed that if Kılıçdaroğlu did not run, Table of Six would nominate İlhan Kesici.

[44][45] Democracy and Progress Party leader Ali Babacan said he would accept it if he was nominated as a presidential candidate.

[47] On 6 September 2022, Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu made the statement that "Everyone has the right to be a candidate" for the candidacy of former president Abdullah Gül.

[49] Journalist Nihat Genç claimed that the opposition's candidate would be former Constitutional Court Haşim Kılıç.

Good Party Secretary Uğur Poyraz and CHP deputy Gürsel Tekin denied this claim.

[50] Journalist Emin Çapa said in a statement on Halk TV that the candidate must be clear and has no ties to politics.

[66] Oğan, a former member of the Nationalist Movement Party before becoming an independent, was announced as the alliance's joint presidential candidate on 11 March 2023.

[74][75] Former Young Party leader Cem Uzan and doctor Serdar Savaş are among those who also announced their candidacy.

[78] Voters were able to give signatures to their preferred presidential candidate between 22 and 27 March at their local electoral council branch.