Sinan Ogan, a former Turkish presidential candidate from the nationalist alliance ATA announcedin the second round of the elections Support The current president is Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The newspaper writes on Monday, May 22 freedom.
Ogan said that he met both Erdogan and his opponent, opposition candidate Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu.
“As a result of these negotiations, I declare that we will support the People’s Alliance candidate. [Эрдогана]. I invite those who voted for us to support Mr. Erdogan.”
Earlier, he had declared during the negotiations that the priority conditions for him would be the return of Syrian refugees to their homeland, the fight against terrorism and the fight against natural disasters.
The second round of the presidential elections in Turkey will be held on Sunday, May 28.
In the first round on 14 May, it was necessary to break the 50% threshold to win – neither Erdoğan (49.52% of the votes) nor Kılıçdaroğlu (44.88%) failed to do so.
Sinan Ogan placed third with a score of 5.17%. The last finisher was Muharrem Ince, backed by only 0.43% of the voters – although he withdrew his candidacy before voting, but his name was not cleared from the polls.
Erdogan won elections in four of the country’s seven regions, but lost in the major cities: Ankara, Istanbul, Izmir and Antalya were on Kilicdaroglu’s side. At the same time, the current president was the leader in the number of votes among Turkish voters abroad. red blood cell.
Who is Sinan Ogan?
55-year-old Sinan Ogan participated in the presidential elections for the first time in Turkey. Between 2011 and 2015, the Azerbaijani politician was a member of the Turkish Grand National Assembly from the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP).
He was expelled from this party in 2015, but appealed against this decision in court and was reinstated in November of the same year. However, it was re-exported in March 2017.
Ogan tried to appeal this decision in court again, but this time his claim was rejected. The reason for Ogan’s expulsion was the statements in which he criticized the party’s politics. However, according to the press, the main reason may be Ogan’s claim to leadership in the MHP, of which Devlet Bahçeli was the chairman for a long time.
She became a candidate from the right-wing bloc in the 2023 elections and was nicknamed the “queen maker” in the press after the first round, because according to some political analysts, her voters will decide the outcome of the election. election campaign.
Ogan criticized both Erdoğan and Kılıçdaroğlu, saying that they could not solve the problems Turkey is facing.
The politician is also known for calling for more active military intervention in Syria. He also criticized Russia’s actions in Syria and its support for Arab Republic President Bashar Assad, arguing that Turkey’s security was threatened.
How many years has Erdogan ruled Turkey?
The current Turkish leader has been in office since 2014, but before that, he had been the country’s prime minister since 2003. After the adoption of a new constitution in 2018, Turkey became a presidential-parliamentary republic.
In 2022, the opposition stated that Erdogan would not be able to run in new elections, as he was re-elected ahead of schedule in 2018 after the adoption of the new constitution and four years in office.
However, the Turkish Ministry of Justice evaluated that according to the new amendments, Erdogan participated in only one election, not two, and therefore has the right to stand for the 2023 elections. Erdogan later said he would not go to the third term if he won the current race.