Istanbul, May 28,2023: Incumbent Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his main opponent, opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu, will meet in a showdown on Sunday as polling stations across the country prepare for a runoff.
The first round two weeks ago saw Erdogan win 49.52% of the votes, and Kilicdaroglu 44.88%. To win the election, a candidate must receive a simple majority of the votes.
Former presidential candidate from the right-wing ATA alliance, Sinan Ogan, said that he would support Erdogan in the runoff.
However, Ogan might fail to mobilize enough votes for the incumbent president, President of the Turkish Foreign Policy Institute and professor of international relations at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Huseyin Bagci, told Sputnik.
