"A strange silence reigns in Ankara… Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Mehmet Ali BİRAND
ANKARA -
I could already feel the difference on the morning flight.
I realized it at once as I saw several well-known faces from Istanbul on the same plane as I flew to Ankara to observe the first round of the presidential elections.
There was no need to ask, “Why are you going?”
As for the journalists on board, they all had the same question on their minds. "
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