"All quiet on the Turkish front
The general election was not a plebiscite on religion. For most Turks it was about the economy
Nothing changes the mood as swiftly as a decisive general election. On Sunday morning, I sat in an Ankara coffee house in Ulus, the poorer district of town, listening to a group of people, from the central Anatolian provincial towns, telling me that this was the quietest election that there had ever been in Turkey and there didn't seem to be any big issues in it. What they said made the frenetic reporting in the world media about a crisis sound more than a little strange. In particular, I rubbed my eyes at Barry Rubin's over-the-top suggestion that this was Turkey's "most important political event since the Republic was founded"."
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