After the candidacy was announced, Erdoğan made a speech where the 'Erdoğan Logo' was used for the first time.
On June 17, 2014, Republican People's Party Leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu and Nationalist Movement Party Leader Devlet Bahçeli announced that they decided to nominate the Secretary-General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu.