Recall that the presidential and legislative elections in Turkey are scheduled for May 14. 4 candidates will fight for the highest state post in the republic. Sinan Ogan is a former member of the Turkish parliament, founder and president of the TURKSAM Center for International Relations and Strategic Analysis. He stands in the elections of the “ATA Alliance” (abbreviation of the name of the founder of the Republic of Turkey, Atatürk).
“Securing peace in the region surrounding Turkey is a top priority for us, as it will help bring stability and economic development there,” Ogan said.
According to him, “Turkey’s foreign policy will be balanced, peaceful and based on good neighborly relations”, including with the West.
“We want Turkey’s relations with the EU and the United States to be built on the basis of trust. We also defend the preservation of the territorial integrity of Syria, we consider it wrong to trying to create a terrorist state of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK, banned in Turkey – note RG) on our borders.” and we will do everything to prevent this. We are for mediation in the resolution of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, for the mediation of Russia in the resolution of relations between Turkey and Syria,” the 56-year-old politician said.
