Governors serving only the AKP

Sevil Erku? sevil.kucukkosum@hdn.com.tr The governor of Tunceli, an eastern province, distributed white goods to voters using the means of his office to support the election propaganda of the Justice and Development Party (AKP). 

Another eastern governor, in Elaz??, said, ?I want a prime minister who would say ?one minute.?? 

The governor of the Thracian province of K?rklareli said, ?It was unfortunate that the Democrat Party [DP] did not close the Republican People?s Party [CHP] and not send its leader [?smet] ?nönü to that tranquil place in history.?

The governor of Bitlis, in eastern Anatolia, was caught asking for votes for the AKP. 

The governor of Kayseri in central Anatolia cut the cake during a national holiday, Victory Day on Aug. 30, while the AKP march was playing.

There was a governor in Ayd?n, an Aegean province, who was the leader of partisans. He took down the posters of the opposition parties from the party buildings in a midnight operation. He adopted a political stance against the mayor of the city who was from the CHP. He scolded the villagers who were complaining about the damage to irrigation channels saying, ?Then, use your vote in the right direction at the elections.?

He attended the Aug. 30 celebrations with AKP deputies and did not shake the hands of CHP and Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) deputies. Later, when he was appointed to the Mediterranean province of Adana, he arrested a 15-year-old boy for making a nationalist hand sign. He said he considered the prime minister?s words about coed student apartments as an instruction and would act accordingly; he called the people ?pimps;? what else could he have done? 

The governor of Istanbul, while police brutality was taking...