Sinan Ogan, the ultranationalist candidate who with 5.2% of the votes in the Turkish presidential elections had come third, has announced that he will support incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the run-off on Sunday 28 May. According to analysts, Ogan intercepted a protest vote.
Ogan ran for president this year supported by an alliance of small, right-wing nationalist parties united by very critical positions towards Syrian migrants and refugees in Turkey. One of these formations, the Victory Party (ZaferPartisi), announced that coalition forces have stopped making shared decisions but will move independently from now on.