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For Turkey runoff, potential kingmaker draws red line at Kurdish concessions
Sinan Ogan, Turkey’s nationalist presidential candidate who finished third in Sunday’s election, said he could only support main opposition candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu in the runoff if he agrees to offer no concessions to a pro-Kurdish party.
Ogan won 5.2 percent in Sunday’s first round of the presidential election. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who led after the Sunday vote, and Kilicdaroglu will take part in the runoff, set for May 28.
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“We will consult with our voter base for our decision in the runoff. But we already made clear that the fight against terrorism and sending refugees back are our red lines,” Ogan, who took 5.2 percent of the initial vote, told Reuters in an interview on Monday.
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