As of today, Turkish-Dutch citizens can go to the polls for the presidential and parliamentary elections in Turkey. You can vote at four locations in the country, one of which is the RAI. You can vote until May 7.
The elections in Turkey itself are on May 14. The Amsterdam polling station will be open from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. in the coming days and is located at entrance F. According to the Turkish embassy, more than 200,000 people are eligible to vote in the country.
Turkey’s polls predict a neck-and-neck race between current President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and united opposition candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu. The opposition leader has called on foreign voters to opt for a change in government.
Past elections
In 2018 it was also possible to vote for the Turkish elections in the city, that was then possible in a conference center on the Rhoneweg in Nieuw-West. From the Turks who voted in Amsterdam at the time, brought 75 percent a vote for Erdogan. Amsterdam therefore had the highest percentage of Dutch-Turks who gave their vote to the sitting president.