the campaign, similar to most turkish political campaigns, centred on mass electoral rallies throughout different provinces of turkey, with key manifesto pledges being to raise the minimum wage and to re-open the suppressed investigations into government corruption that began in december 2013. in late may, the party announced a project to build a megacity in the centre of turkey to act as a centre for international trade and commerce named merkez türkiye, seen to be a rival 'crazy project' to the governing justice and development party's "kanal istanbul" project. for the first time in the party's history, the campaign also had an overseas component, since this was the first general election in which turkish expats could vote from consulates in their respective countries of residence.