Palace Responds to Question on Turkey’s Election Date

Turkey’s Vice President Cevdet Yılmaz said the government prepared its 2027-2029 medium-term program on the assumption that elections would be held on schedule, around spring or summer 2028.

"When we prepared this program, we assumed that the elections would take place on time, in the spring or toward the summer of 2028. We did not make a speculative assumption," Yılmaz said in response to a question about the election timetable.

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When we prepared this program, we assumed that the elections would take place on time, in the spring or toward the summer of 2028. We did not make a speculative assumption.

He pointed to Parliament as the authority that could decide whether the election is brought forward. "These matters are for our Parliament to decide," he said, adding that an earlier election would be at Parliament’s discretion and that it would not be right to make such an assumption now.

The medium-term program also revised Turkey’s year-end inflation forecast sharply upward, from 16% to 28.4%. It projects inflation falling to 21% in 2027, 13.5% in 2028 and 9% in 2029.

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These matters are for our Parliament to decide.