"We have all lost democracy," Kemal Kilicdaroglu, Turkish President Recep Erdogan's main rival in Turkey's ongoing legislative and presidential elections, said at the time of the vote. "We all missed democracy.
We missed being together, we missed hugging. You will see, spring will return to this country God willing and it will last forever," he said. Turkish head of state Recep Tayyip Erdogan also voted in the elections where he is running again for the presidency of the Republic.