In Istanbul
Before the evening of May 14, no one had really taken an interest in Sinan Ogan. Whatever candidate he was, he was not "presidentiable" like Recep Tayyip Erdogan or Kemal Kiliçdaroglu. In the opposition camp, it was not he who was accused of "dispersing the votes", but Muharrem Ince, another candidate who finally threw in the towel three days before the vote.
On the night of the results, however, Sinan Ogan was the first to speak, to say several things: that there would be a second round (which many in the opposition, as in the camp of power, refused to believe at that time), that his presence in the race had prevented a victory of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and that his voters would determine the outcome of the second round on May 28. And none of this was wrong.
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Sinan Ogan won 5.17% of the vote, a significant score that surprised many. Some 2.8 million Turks voted for him, i.e. precisely the number of votes that Kemal lacked...
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