Sinan Oğan

Sinan Oğan (born 1 September 1967) is a Turkish politician who won a seat in the Turkish parliament in 2011 with the far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP).[4] He was the presidential candidate of ATA Alliance for the 2023 Turkish presidential election, which was resulted in a second round. He finished in third place, therefore he was described as a potential kingmaker.[5][6]

Sinan Oğan
Member of the Grand National Assembly
In office
12 June 2011 – 7 June 2015
ConstituencyIğdır (2011)
Personal details
Born (1967-09-01) 1 September 1967
Iğdır, Turkey
Political partyIndependent (2017–present)
Other political
affiliations		Nationalist Movement Party (2011–2017)[lower-alpha 1]
SpouseGökçen Oğan[2]
ChildrenGöktürk, Zeynep[3]
Alma materMarmara University
Moscow State Institute of International Relations

Early life and education

Oğan was born on 1 September 1967 in Iğdır, Turkey, in a family of Azerbaijani ethnicity.[7] He graduated from the Department of Management at Marmara University in 1989. From 1993 to 2000 Oğan worked as deputy dean at the Azerbaijan State Economic University.[8] From 1994 to 1998, he also served as a representative of the Turkish International Cooperation and Development Agency (TİKA) of the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs in an additional mission.

Professional career

In 2000, he returned to Turkey and started working at the Center for Eurasian Strategic Studies on the Caucasus region. He laid the foundation for the Center of International Relations and Strategic Analysis TURKSAM. Oğan's books include 'Azerbaijan', which was published by Turkic World Research Foundation Publications in 1992, 'Politics and Oligarchy', published in Russia in 2003, and 'Orange Revolutions', published in 2006. He has also published more than 500 articles and analyses.[8] In 2009, Oğan obtained a PhD in international relations and political science from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations.[9]

Political career

He was elected as Iğdır deputy from the Nationalist Movement Party in the 2011 Turkish general elections. He was a member of the Turkey-Albania and Türkiye-Niger Parliamentary Friendship Groups and the Secretary General of the Turkey-Azerbaijan Parliamentary Friendship Group.

He was expelled from the Nationalist Movement Party on August 26, 2015, but won a lawsuit and returned to the party, only to be expelled again on November 2, 2015. He returned to the party as a member in 2016.

Oğan organized opposition to the 2017 Turkish constitutional referendum resulting in his final expulsion from the Nationalist Movement Party. Prior to this, he was a challenger against Devlet Bahceli, leader of the MHP, where an internal revolt had occured due to the party's poor showing in the November 2015 Turkish general election.[10] Oğan argued that the MHP platform was against "constitutional change" and campaigned against Bahceli's support for the referendum. Oğan was subject to an alleged assassination attempt after his expulsion from the party, though the district governor of Samsun Province disputed this claim.[11]

2023 presidential election
Sinan Oğan launching his campaign

He was nominated as the ATA Alliance candidate for the 2023 Turkish Presidential election, acquiring the necessary 100,000 signatures to stand on March 26, 2023. He had 5.17% votes and ended the election in the 3rd place.

Personal life

Oğan is married and has two children. He speaks English and Russian.[12]

Awards and recognition
  • 1992 Milliyet Newspaper Social Sciences Award
  • 1993 Marmara University Academic Award of Excellence
  • Turkic World Service Award from Eurasia Economic Relations Association
  • Honor Award from the Federation of Oghuz Tribe Cultural Associations
  • 2011, he was awarded the Azerbaijan State Medal.[13]
  • 2011 "Member of the Parliament (MP) of the Year" by the Telecommunication Workers Association[14]

Electoral history

Parliamentary
Election Constituency Party Votes Seats Elected
#  % Rank
2011 Iğdır Nationalist Movement Party 27,554 34,09% 1st Yes

Presidential
ElectionVotes %OutcomeMap
2023 2,831,2085.17%3rd

See also

Notes
  1. In August 2015, Oğan was expelled from the party by the MHP disciplinary board, however he returned to the party in November 2015 with annulment of the decision by a court.[1]

References
  1. "Sinan Oğan MHP'ye geri döndü" (in Turkish). 2 November 2015.
  2. Sinan Oğan nerelidir Ajans Konya
  3. "İşte Sinan Oğanın eşi ve çocukları".
  4. Azeri Elected to Turkish Parliament. Day.az. 13 June 2011.
  5. "Sinan Ogan, the unexpected kingmaker in Turkey's presidential election". 15 May 2023.
  6. "For Turkey runoff, potential kingmaker draws red line at Kurdish concessions". 15 May 2023.
  7. Head of Turkey-Azerbaijan association becomes deputy of Turkish parliament Archived 2014-10-27 at the Wayback Machine
  8. "Sinan Oğan". Official page. Archived from the original on 27 October 2014. Retrieved 26 October 2014.
  9. Dr. Sinan OĞAN. Nationofturks.com.
  10. Agency, Anadolu (15 May 2023), MHP expels 3 deputies ahead of April 16 referendum, Anadolu Agency (published 10 March 2017)
  11. MHP dissident politician Sinan Oğan says he escaped assassination attempt, Hurriyet Daily News (published 10 April 2017), 15 May 2023
  12. "24. DÖNEM IĞDIR MİLLETVEKİLİ".
  13. Turkish MP visits Azerbaijan Tourism Institute Azertag.az
  14. Sinan Oğan bir kez daha milletvekili seçildi Guvengazetesi.com.
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