Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and candidate for President who is seen as the favorite to win this election would be close his election campaign in the central city of Anatolia, Konya.
Elected by Parliament so far, the post of President of Turkey has been more ceremonial. But Erdogan during his campaign is advocating the idea of strengthening the role of head of state. He urged his supporters to go to the polls Sunday.
"Break the polls on Sunday and give our opponents a democratic clout," he said at Friday's rally in Ankara.
Two other candidates held meetings with constituents on Friday. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu visited SOMAS city, struck by tragedy in May heaviest in the history of Turkish mines.
Erdogan has been criticized for the way they manage the crisis caused in this city that killed 301 people, and throughout the campaign he avoided electoral meetings in this region.
The third candidate is he out of the ranks of the Kurdish minority. Selahattin Demirtas held the largest rally of his campaign in the capital of the Kurds, Diyarbakir on Friday.
Race true it is expected to be between Erdogan and Ihsanoglu. The latter is the common candidate of the two largest opposition parties, the Republican Party and the extremist right Nationalist Movement.
The electoral law requires that the winning candidate received more than 50 percent of the vote. If this threshold is not caught by any of the candidates in elections this Sunday, then everything will be decided in a runoff scheduled for Aug. 24.
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