安卡拉，10月15日 - 一位总统顾问周四表示，土耳其可能会比预期更早举行2028年选举，这一举措将使总统塔伊普·埃尔多安能够规避宪法限制，再次参选。
ANKARA, Oct 15 - Turkey will probably hold its 2028 elections earlier than expected, a presidential adviser said on Thursday, a move which would allow President Tayyip Erdogan to sidestep constitutional limits and run again for office.
目前，总统和议会选举定于当年5月举行。埃尔多安的顾问梅赫梅特·乌丘姆在安卡拉对记者表示：“现在几乎可以肯定，2028年的选举将在3月或4月举行。”
The next presidential and parliamentary votes are currently scheduled to take place in May that year. "It is now almost clear that the 2028 elections would be held in March or April," Erdogan's adviser, Mehmet Ucum, told reporters in Ankara.
乌丘姆并未明确说明这对总统的计划意味着什么。但这是一位高级官员首次公开支持埃尔多安盟友提出的提议，即调整选举时间，以便让他再次参选。埃尔多安已执掌土耳其近23年，先是担任总理，随后担任总统。
Ucum did not spell out what that meant for the president's plans. But it was the closest a senior figure has come to publicly backing a proposal floated by Erdogan's allies to reschedule the vote to let him run one more time. Erdogan has ruled Turkey for nearly 23 years, first as prime minister and then as president.
2017年的一次公投引入了新的行政总统制，使埃尔多安能够在2018年和2023年再次当选总统。
A 2017 referendum brought in a new executive presidency system that allowed Erdogan to be re-elected as president two more times in 2018 and 2023.
尽管该新制度设立了两届任期限制，但宪法允许他在尚未完成最后一个五年任期之前，若议会提前举行选举，则可以再次参选。
Though that new system set a two-term limit, the constitution would allow him to run again if parliament calls an election early, before he has served the whole of his last five-year term.
土耳其反对派也曾呼吁提前举行选举，但表示他们希望借此机会挑战埃尔多安的经济政策，而不是给他另一次参选的机会。
Turkey's opposition has also called for an early vote — but said they want it to give them a chance to challenge Erdogan's economic policies rather than to give him another chance to run.
“将问题简化为‘我们如何让塔伊普·埃尔多安再次当选总统’这一观点，从我们的角度来看，根本无法接受，”主要反对派领袖奥兹古尔·奥泽尔上周表示。
"Reducing the issue to 'how can we get Tayyip Erdogan re-elected as President' is, from our point of view, simply unacceptable," main opposition leader Ozgur Ozel said last week.
民族主义运动党（MHP）领袖德夫莱特·巴赫切利上周呼吁议会在“适当时机”召开选举，以便让“埃尔多安总统有机会再次参选”。
Devlet Bahceli, leader of the nationalist MHP, which is allied with Erdogan, last week called on parliament to call for elections at "an appropriate time" to let "President Erdogan run for re-election".
议会需五分之三多数 — 即600名议员中的360人 — 才能提出提前选举的要求。埃尔多安执政的正义与发展党（AKP）及其盟友目前拥有331个席位，因此保守派联盟仍需其他党派提供29票才能达标，这仍可能是一个挑战。
A three-fifths majority of parliament — 360 of 600 lawmakers — is required to call an early election. Erdogan's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and its allies have 331 seats, so the conservative alliance needs 29 more votes from other parties, which could still be a challenge.