Türkiye's nationalist politician Sinan Ogan has qualified to run as a presidential candidate after collecting more than 100,000 signatures. Here is an explainer on his political background
A Turkish nationalist, Ogan is a former member of the Nationalist Movement Party , an ally of the Erdogan-led AK Party.
Sinan Ogan, an academic with Azerbaijani Turkish roots, will run as ATA Alliance’s presidential candidate inafter collecting more than 100,000 signatures, a legal requirement to run for the country’s top post. Ogan’s endorsers are the ATA alliance, a block of four parties – Zafer Party, Memleket Party and Türkiye Alliance Party – known for their nationalist stances.
The ATA alliance is a low-profile alliance compared to the other two leading political blocks, AK Party leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan-led People’s Alliance and the main opposition Republican People’s Party leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu’s Nation Alliance. All these alliances are competing against each other on May 14 to claim victory in both
The 56-year-old Ogan’s career began in the Nationalist Movement Party . In 2011, he became a deputy from his hometown Igdir, an eastern Anatolian province with a sizable Azerbaijani population. But after Bahceli adopted a new policy of backing Erdogan’s policies following the November 2015 elections, Ogan joined other nationalist figures to oppose his leadership.
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