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ANKARA, May 19-- As Turkey's general elections looming, People's Alliance established by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), as well as opposition parties, are both aiming at a parliament majority. Turkey's opposition parties develop a strategy to win at least 301 lawmakers in the 600-seat parliament in the upcoming general elections, in a bid to proceed the presidential election to a second round, local experts said. The opposition parties' first goal is winning more lawmakers and have enough quorum, said Kemal Ozkiraz, former chairman of Eurasia Research Center and now parliament member nominee for main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP). The opposition parties will run their own candidates for the first round of the presidential elections, he said, adding that the polls will see second round if no candidate receives more than 50 percent of the votes in the first round. The opposition parties then will support the highest-polling candidate among their nominees, the expert said. CHP's leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu has been working on this strategy for the past three months, he said. The upcoming presidential and parliamentary elections on June 24 sees intense alliance and cooperation efforts focused on competition mainly between two blocks. The main opposition CHP, the IYI (Good) Party, the Felicity Party (SP) and the Democrat Party (DP) compose an alliance running against the People's Alliance. | 
