In the UK, a low turnout in the Turkey elections is emerging. A new parliament and president will be elected in Turkey on 14 May, and overseas voters in the UK can cast their votes at Turkish representations in London, Manchester and Edinburgh until 7 May. However, of the 127,281 eligible voters registered nationwide, only about 35,000 voted in the first four days.

In the 2018 Turkish elections, turnout in the UK was around 40 per cent. Supporters of the Green Left Party have set a target of increasing the turnout rate to over 50 per cent. The Green Left Party is contesting the parliamentary elections in place of the HDP, which is threatened with a ban, and is supporting presidential candidate Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, leader of the CHP, in order to end the Erdoğan era in Turkey.

The Green Left Party supporters in the UK have formed an election coordination team which has been in constant operation for weeks. This mainly involves transporting eligible voters to the polls and observing the elections in Turkish representations. In addition, there are always problems due to incorrect data in the election registration. For example, many people do not seem to be registered on the website for foreign voters. The Green Left Party election coordination said: "In fact, the records of these people are available, so they can cast their votes. For this reason, citizens whose overseas voter registration does not appear can come to the polling station and have it checked, or if they send us their identity details, we can find out if they are registered from the voter list we have."

Members of the election coordination urged eligible people to make use of their right to vote. Ibrahim Avcil of the Migrant Workers’ Cultural Association (Gik-Der) stated that voting should not be seen only as a democratic right, saying: "Voting is a responsibility and duty for us. To overthrow the one-man dictatorship and put an end to the fascist regime and its order of lies and deceit, our people in Britain, as in the whole world, should go to the polling stations and vote. There are only a few days left and we ask them to cast their votes under the motto ‘We will change together’.”

The Kurdish and Turkish Community Center (Day-Mer) Spokesperson Feyzullah Cinpolat said that the turnout is low and called on those who have not cast their votes to go to the polls and express their discontent with the state of affairs in their country. “If we think that something needs to be done, today is the day. The complaining should be turned into action. This is a historic opportunity for us.”

Artist Hazal Demirel, a volunteer of the Labour and Freedom Alliance, said: “We are here, waiting for our people to come and cast their votes. We are trying to ensure election safety at polling stations.”