France 24: Turkey’s third-place, far-right candidate endorses Erdogan ahead of runoff
The third-placed contender in the Turkish presidential elections on Monday formally endorsed President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for the second-round runoff vote to be held on May 28th.
The nationalist presidential candidate Sinan Ogan, 55, has emerged as a potential kingmaker after neither Erdogan nor his main challenger, opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu, secured the majority needed for a first-round victory on May 14th.
Ogan, a former academic who was backed by a far-right anti-migrant party, won 5.17% in the May 14 vote and could hold the key to victory in the runoff now that he’s out of the race.
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Update: Erdogan wins endorsement for Turkish election runoff from third-place candidate Ogan (AP)
WNU Editor: It looks like President Erdogan is going to be re-elected again this Sunday.
Ogan wants the Syrian refugees gone. Erdogan might comply via a poisoned chalice. Instead of just normalizing with Syria it’s possible Erdogan pushes his Syria invasion further south in order to set up more “internal refugee safe zones” controlled by their al qaeda proxies.
ReplyDeletenice move if so. Let peace prevail.
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