Ex-presidential candidate Ogan may announce support for Erdogan today

Former Turkish presidential candidate from the Ata Alliance (Ataturk Alliance) Sinan Ogan today can declare that he supports Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the second round of the presidential elections on May 28 and sign the five-point document that he previously discussed during the meeting with the current head of the republic, Report informs referring to Hürriyet newspaper.

“According to the information I received, Sinan Ogan will announce today that he will support President Erdogan in the second round of elections. He will declare that he will not support Kilicdaroglu because of his support for terrorist groups,” the article says.

According to the publication, Ogan on May 22 “will not just make a statement, but will announce the points that he discussed with President Erdogan.”

“These points are: not to change the first four articles of the Constitution. Prevention of attempts to remove the Turkic identity from the Constitution, the fight against all types of terrorist groups and terrorism, the gradual deportation of asylum seekers in accordance with the plan, the development of economic policy in accordance with international markets and greater flexibility in interest rate policy,” reads the newspaper.

Earlier, Ogan already announced a number of conditions on which his decision to support one or another candidate in the second round will depend, among them - not to allow deputies from the pro-Kurdish opposition Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) into parliament. In his opinion, this party is a political wing of the banned in Türkiye and recognized as a terrorist PKK. In the current presidential elections, the HDP refused to nominate its candidate and supported Kilicdaroglu.