Election Day

The long awaited election day has finally arrived. Men and women all across the nation ignored poor weather and personal illness so that they could trek out to their province's designated voting booths and fill in their ballots for their preferred party. Nobody could have anticipated such a tremendous turnout, especially when the transition to democracy seemed to come so quickly. The electoral race has not exactly been clean, but any pro-democracy advocate would feel pride seeing so many Turkish citizens going out to vote in Turkey's first free election. The race was tight, and it took a significant amount of time to count all the votes and determine the final result. The ultimate winners of Turkey's first election are...