[1] Selami Altınok was born in 1966 in Narman, Erzurum and graduated from Department of Public Administration in Istanbul University Faculty of Political Sciences in 1988.

[4] Following a series of police raids on the homes of numerous businessmen and the sons of four cabinet ministers as part of a government corruption scandal, the serving Istanbul General Director of Security who had ordered the operations, Hüseyin Çapkın, was removed from his post.

In his government's defence, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had accused the perpetrators of the anti-corruption operation to be sympathisers of the Gülen Movement and would be removed from their positions.

[7] After the June 2015 general election resulted in a hung parliament, unsuccessful coalition negotiations raised speculation over whether President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan would call an early election in the event that AKP leader Ahmet Davutoğlu was unable to form a government within the given constitutional time of 45 days.

When going into an election, the Constitution requires that the partisan ministers responsible for the Interior, for Justice and for Transport to resign from their positions and to be replaced by independent civil servants three months before polling day.