Editing President of Turkey (section)

===Election===
{{Main|Turkish presidential elections}}
The principles regarding the election of the President are regulated in Article 101 of the Constitution and in the Presidential Election Law.<ref>{{cite web |title=General Election 2023 |url=https://www.osce.org/files/f/documents/2/1/537636_0.pdf |publisher=OSCE |access-date=20 May 2023}}</ref>

In the election to be held by universal suffrage, the candidate who receives the absolute majority of the valid votes is elected president. If this majority is not achieved in the first round, a [[Two-round system|runoff]] is held on the second Sunday following this vote. The two candidates who received the most votes in the first ballot participate in this voting and the candidate who receives the majority of the valid votes is elected president. 

If one of the presidential candidates who gains the right to run for the second round is unable to participate in the election for any reason, the second round shall be conducted by substituting the vacant candidacy in conformity with the ranking in the first round. If only one candidate remains for the second round, this ballot shall be then conducted as a referendum. A presidential candidate receives the majority of the valid votes shall be elected as president. If that candidate fails to receive the majority of the valid votes in the election, the presidential election will be scheduled to be renewed.<ref>{{cite web |title=Electoral Systems |url=https://aceproject.org/electoral-advice/archive/questions/answers/CDCountry?set_language=en&topic=ES&country=TR |website=aceproject.org |access-date=18 March 2023}}</ref>

Before the constitutional amendments approved in the [[2007 Turkish constitutional referendum|2007 referendum]], the [[Grand National Assembly of Turkey|Grand National Assembly]] would elect one of its members as the President.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cdn.istanbul.edu.tr/statics/hukuk.istanbul.edu.tr/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Constitutional-Changes-of-Turkey-in-2001-Saadet-Yuksel.pdf|title=Constitutional Changes of Turkey in 2001 under the Framework of the EU Adaptation Process|last=Yüksel|first=Saadet|author-link=Saadet Yüksel|publisher=[[Istanbul University]]|date=March 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220713192358/https://cdn.istanbul.edu.tr/statics/hukuk.istanbul.edu.tr/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Constitutional-Changes-of-Turkey-in-2001-Saadet-Yuksel.pdf|archive-date=July 13, 2022}}</ref>