For the first time since the Justice and Development Party (AKP) came to power more than two decades ago, its opponents are rallying in a single alliance. Party leaders who were in President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's inner circle before choosing to side with his fiercest rivals.
There are ideological and political differences between the sides of the "Six-Table Alliance" as it has become known. The People's Alliance wants a return to a parliamentary system that reduces the powers of the president in favor of returning to the post of prime minister.