Steph - turkey

Submitted by melungeongirl (Turkey), May 14, 2007 at 06:12

İ am in the western part of Turkey. İ travel mostly. Yes there have been many protests. İf you know anything about Ataturk, hopefully İ spelled his name right, Anyway most people love him and think of him as the greatest Turkish leader ever. he is the one who changed the Turkish language from Arabic to what they use now. And İ guess the reason for the more democratic views and more so western culture.

At any rate the man you are speaking of running for president is a fundelmentalist ,and from what i gather, the majority does not want him as president. The people dont vote for president, the representatives do. İ am not really knowledgable of their policies but İ think their representatives are like our congress. He did not get enough votes and now they will have a vote for new representatives.İ guess they think new representatives will lead to a new president. Because for now İ dont think they have one as the previous presidents term is up.

The president does not run things like in America, the prime minester does. So the previous president wanted to run for PM but the people dont want him because he is fundelmentalist. So he nominated this other man to run, another fundamentalist. the people dont want him either, he is the one they are protesting. The army has from my understanding made a threat that they will step in if he is elected which will be very bad times for Turkey, so hopefully that wont happen and things will work out.

Also İ believe the reprasentatives will vote on if they will change their policy to let the people vote for the president or prime minaster ,İ am not sure which. A bomb exploded in İzmer a couple of days ago, İ am assuming this is a terrorist act. İ do believe you are right tho in saying these are the end times.There is way too much going on in our world which will soon bring these prophesies to light. İ wish things could be different, that we all could just get along, at least tolerate each others differences, considering we all came from the same 2 people. But İ suppose what will be will be. Anyway, excuse my writing today İ had to use Turkish keyboard which is somewhat different than ours.

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