Having received the approval of ultra-nationalists, Erdogan reaffirms the approval of the ‘Sultan’

A heavy blow to the Turkish opposition led by Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu. The third candidate in the Turkish election has publicly declared his support for Recep Tayyip Erdogan, bolstering the position of the outgoing president, who is most likely a candidate for reaffirmation in next Sunday’s runoff. Sinan Ogan, a radical nationalist who was little known to the general public prior to the campaign, won 5.2 percent of the vote in the first presidential election on May 14, causing some analysts to call him a potential “kingmaker” for the ballot.

“I declare that we will support People’s Alliance candidate Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the second round,” he said at a press conference in Ankara. Ogant added that his campaign made Turkish nationalists the “heroes” of politics. Defending that the opposition represented by Kılıçdaroğlu’s National Alliance “could not convince us about the future”, Oganst explained that his decision to support Erdoğan was based on the principle of “relentless struggle (against terrorism)”. Erdogan received 49.5% of the votes on 14 May, against the 44.9% of Kılıçdaroğlu’s, while the ruling party’s coalition has already won a majority in the Parliament. This gives Erdogan an advantage, who wants to extend his 20-year rule, one of Turkey’s most important elections.

Ogan, 55, a former academic, became the presidential candidate in the first round of the alliance of right-wing organizations led by the Zafer Party, which is known for its anti-immigrant stances in Turkey, the world’s largest refugee-hosting country. World. In an interview with Reuters last week, Ogan said his aim is to remove the two predominantly Kurdish parties from Turkey’s “political equation” and support Turkish nationalists and secularists. The left-wing pro-Kurdish party HDP supports Kılıçdaroğlu, while the Kurdish-Islamic party Hüda-Par supports Erdoğan.

Source: Today IT

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