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It was the mother of republican Turkey?s many bad habits. It was 55 years ago this week when some officers staged a coup against the elected, ever-strong Democrat Party (DP) government of the country, overthrowing an obsessively majoritarian mentality, but at the same time setting precedence for a ?tradition of military interventions? and laying down the foundations of a military tutelage.

A simple, multiplayer game on the web has become the latest battleground for Turkish politics ahead of the June 7 general election, gaming website Kotaku has reported.

In Agar.io, a player controls a tiny, colored cell gunning to eat smaller cells and avoid being slurped into someone else's mass.

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu has strongly denied opposition claims that the government has established a team of 3,500 people to conduct election fraud, vowing to resign if the claims are proven to be true. 

A construction project on the uninhabited Yass?ada, a small but infamous island located off the coast of Istanbul?s Asian side in the Marmara Sea, was officially started on May 14 in a ceremony with the participation of the prime minister.

There is now less than a month until Turkey's next general elections, to be held on June 7. In the past, I would often be quite sure in these pre-election weeks about who I was going to vote for. This time, I am not. I am only sure that whomever I am going to vote for, I will not do it lovingly.

Talking about President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an?s performance on impartiality, yes, there are exceptional, faulty movements. For him to stand at rallies with the Quran in his hand is a propaganda fault. It is also another fault in impartiality for him to deliver speeches at town rallies during election time. 

The provisional candidate lists for Turkey's upcoming June 7 parliamentary elections were announced on April 15, finalizing the review process of the candidacy lists submitted by the country's political parties to the Supreme Election Board (YSK).

Will June 8, 2015, the day after Turkey?s June 7 general election, be a day of defeat for the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP)?

I am not a good election forecaster. I only know that if the Peoples? Democratic Party (HDP) passes the 10 percent military coup threshold, then it may be. 

The defeat and the disappointment of the AKP may grow like a snowball.

A total of 12 political parties have withdrawn from the June 7 parliamentary elections in Turkey, with 11 of them not submitting their lists of nomination candidates by April 7.

Eleven of the 31 political parties which were eligible to enter the elections on June 7 did not submit their lists, automatically disqualifying them from the election ballot. 

Turkey?s leftists and secular middle-class voters may be overjoyed and excited about the Syriza victory next door. But it is actually a nightmare for the upper ranks of the main opposition Republican People?s Party (CHP) and other small opposition parties like Emine Ülker Tarhan?s Anadolu Party (AP). I am leaving Do?u Perinçek?s Labor Party outside of this duo for a specific reason.