PUBLIC OPINION FORMATION AND ELECTIONS: A NETWORK ANALYSIS ON 24th JUNE 2018 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION AND 27th TERM GENERAL ELECTION

In Turkey's political history, elections which are undoubtedly the most important element of the democracy has often been controversial. Turkey has also adopted a national multiparty presidential system with Constitutional Amendment made in April 2017. While discussions of the referendum are ongoing, the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) Chairman Devlet Bah？eli, one of the opposition leaders and the political parties supporting the system, has made an early election call, despite the expected 2019 to move to the related system. Following the negotiations, it was decided to go to the early elections on 24th June, 2018. It is wondered that as a citizenship task, how the voters' behavior will evolve. Because, great importance is given to the activities of forming public opinion before the elections, and public opinion surveys can also manipulate the voters while keeping their pulse. However, today the situation of the public network formed in social networks which are based on new media, is also important. Therefore, in this study, public opinion formation, public opinion polls and the public network which is formed on social media for related election will be analyzed