Turkey is headed to the polls for the second time this year.

Back in June, when the country’s most recent general elections were held, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s ruling AK Party (AKP) didn’t win an outright majority for the first time since 2002. Afterward, he wasn’t able to form a coalition with the opposition partiesbefore an August deadline and called for new elections.Sunday’s election comes at a bleak time for Turkey, BuzzFeed News’ Borzou Daragahi writes. A more than 30-year-old conflict between armed forces and the militant Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has flared up. The country has seen at least three suicide bombingsin the past three months. And earlier this month, twin suicide blasts in Turkey’s capital —the country’s deadliest attack on civilians in recent history — killed more than 100 people at a peace rally.

Additionally, more than 2 million refugees fleeing a civil war in Syria, which is now in its fifth year, have entered Turkey. And “the Turkish lira is skidding just slightly above an all-time low,” Daragahi writes.