Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is apparently aiming for another mandate and wants to resign at the end of his term if he wins the election.
He is asking the population for their support in next year's elections "for the last time," Erdoğan said on Saturday during a speech in the northern Turkish city of Samsun.
Following a possible further mandate, it is then time to pass the baton on to younger politicians.
Erdoğan hopes that his conservative Islamic party, the AKP, will win the June vote.
However, the ruling party is under great pressure given an inflation rate of over 84 percent.
Erdoğan, 68, has been in power since 2003, first as head of government and since 2014 as president.
Since 2018, he has had increased powers thanks to the change from parliamentary system of government to a presidential system as part of a constitutional reform.