Turkish candidate to the OSCE Secretary General Ersin Ercin was supported by a half of the OSCE member-countries, the newspaper Hurriyet reported.
Ercin accompanied Turkish president Abdullah Gul at the NATO summit in Lisbon and the OSCE summit in Astana. He was introduced to the presidents of more than 30 countries. According to the publication, Ercin was supported by 25 of 56 OSCE member-countries, including Russia and the United States.