Shall we go on vacation or to the ballot box?

The Supreme Election Board (YSK) set the date of the election as Nov. 1.

The answer to "Why not Nov. 8?" came in a meteorological nature: "Weather conditions could be bad in some of Turkey's regions."

I surfed the internet yesterday and there was no information whatsoever that there will be major changes in the temperatures in the first week of November.

At any rate, for the past 20 years temperatures have always shown a positive deviation, with the exception of 1997 and 2011. In other words, temperatures went up.

Obviously some are suspicious about the YSK's date choice. Due to the four-day holiday that will come with Republic Day on Oct. 29, it has been speculated those leaving for holidays will not come back to cast their votes on Nov. 1.

Some claim the date has been set as Nov. 1 so the sympathizers of the Republican People's Party (CHP), who are fond of going on vacations, will not come back and cast their votes.

If all of those who cannot sacrifice from their vacations at a time there is an election which will determine the fate of the country, then the problem lies with the CHP and its constituency. If this is a trap against the CHP, then the only way not to fall into this trap is to finish vacations a day early, come back and vote!

Making predictions about Erdo?an's next moves

All of the public opinion polls except the manipulative ones or the ones that are done in order to make those who have commissioned it happy reveal the outcome of the repeated elections will not be much different.

The plans of the president and the Justice and Development Party (AKP) to push the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) below the threshold will not succeed; and actually it seems that there will be...