https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_Turkey#Eligibility
Arrest of Opposition’s (Presumptive) Candidate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrest_of_Ekrem_İmamoğlu
On 19 March 2025, Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu from the opposition Republican People’s Party was arrested by Turkish police for alleged corruption, extortion, bribery, money laundering and supporting terrorism, particularly the PKK. His arrest, along with that of more than 100 other people, caused widespread protests and demonstrations.
Since November 2024, AKP actions against opposition representatives heated up. On 18 March 2025, Istanbul University annulled İmamoğlu’s degree, citing irregularities. As Turkey’s presidential candidates must hold an university degree, this would effectively block him from running for president. The decision came just days before the opposition party was set to nominate him.
Felons being president is not the issue.
The issue is the people willing to vote for such morally bankrupt con-artist.
Being able to elect a Felon is kinda like jury nullification, but for electing presidents.
Like: Jury nullification isn’t the issue, the issue is the jury is now ignoring a smoking-gun evidence that the accused have actually done the crime, and the jury is letting an actual bad person get away with it. Its not the system, its the people in the jury.
Edit: But also, Felons not being able to vote is total cringe. Like, how does it make sence to be able to run for an office you can’t vote in?