has just revealed its candidate the senior lawmaker who had an engine now this election takes place during a state of emergency that s been played in place in turkey since a failed coup attempt against everyone s government in july of two thousand and sixteen since then the country has seen the dismissals or arrests of more than one hundred sixty thousand government employees especially in the education and justice systems and the military they re accused of backing exiled clerics fit to look good and who everyone says masterminded the coup attempt more of the story now with our correspondent yulia han who s standing by in istanbul hialeah good to see you now that we have the main candidates do you think we re going to see one of the opposition candidates emerge as a leader and do you think the opposition can unite against heir to one. well that s the big question now they were not able to come up with a joint strong candidate to run against a president out on instead all the oppositio