Two weeks to go

Tomorrow is there two weeks left until the local election here in Turkey. The result will be analysed for weeks after that to explained what happened and why.

This week a 15 year old boy who was shot last year by a teargas grenade during the demonstrations in Istanbul died after 9 months in coma. The funeral was followed by many thousand and was peaceful. Later in the evening new demonstrations took place all over Turkey and police used teargas and water cannons again. One man was shot to death and a police man died of heart attack after been exposed to teargas. It is still unclear who shot the man.

This is one of the main news this week. People are upset since no one is found guilty for the fatal teargas shot last year and the police have not started any investigation.

The other news that may affect the election is the handling of the corruption case that was publicised December 17^th last year and will be presented for the parliament in a special session on Wednesday Mach 19^th.

In addition we have many new tapes with the prime minister and the Gülen movement that works on, but this has now become more ordinary news.

As a foreigner I try to follow the new and observe the development. What I am curious about now is how this will affect the election and what will be the reaction of the ruling party, AKP, if they lose a lot.  

But, two weeks more and we may have the answers.