Egregiously Execrable Election

Garen Yegparian

BY GAREN YEGPARIAN

Yes, it’s coming, an unnecessary election designed to serve the interests of one party (at best) and more realistically, one megalomaniac.  This is not a diatribe directed at Mike Gatto who has often been the object of harsh criticism from me, but about Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan, the man who would be a newfangled, neo-Ottoman sultan and (now) his Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi (AKP).

It’s all over except for the bloodshed, to all appearances.  With acting/caretaker/interim (whatever the proper term is) Prime Minister Ahmet DavutoÄŸlu announcing on August 13 that “an early election is the only option ahead,”