Keep yours eyes on Turkey this weekend

Ahhh, Turkish politics.  The only nice thing you can say is that the campaign season here is mercifully short, lasting no more than a month.  How ’bout that as a model for campaign reform?

Elections are this Sunday and if you’d like a taste of what’s doing down, check out this short report in today’s New York Times.  Apart from the sentence saying that most Turks are observant Muslims — I’ll give you many, but not most — I thought it was well done, if a little short on opposing viewpoints.

Lacking great polling or political prediction markets here in Turkey, it’s anybody’s guess if this election will actually turn out to be a watershed, but the journalist certainly tapped the same stories I’ve heard about liberal Turks choosing to support the religious, but more democratic, AK Party. 

Stay tuned…