ISTANBUL - For many political observers, the AKP’s candidate for Ankara, Mayor Melih Gökçek’s victory is an expected outcome taking into account the central government’s support as well as the possible positive role of the much-criticized municipal aid packages distributed to Ankara’s outskirt, which are main the basis of his political support.
Sopot, POLAND-Some years ago, I began working on a plan to get rid of the month of December. I still have a bit of refining to do, but the basic outline I came up with was for 11 months of eight-day weeks. The goal here was to go straight from November into January. I suppose we would still have to contend with some kind of New Year’s event but my idea would have eliminated a large measure of other holiday nonsense. This plan also would have excised my birthday from the calendar.