Thursday, August 23, 2007

On the Election Outcomes

When I was writing the previous post I was still away from Turkey. So I concluded that I had stayed away enough to lose the general concept from Turkey is the first excuse for the deviation in my guesses of the elections. The second one is not an excuse actually but an explanation or a clarification attempt of this error. The election produced a bewildering result even the prime minister was surprised. The common belief of this is the reaction against "Abdullah Gul's candidacy for presidency and resistance to him" event.

Anyway, no excuses... I made me a mistake.

The actual results are the followings:
AKP : %47
CHP : %21
MHP : %14
Independents : %5
DP : %5
GP : %3


More comments on the results and current situation to come ...