COMMENT by Haig Kayserian - armenia.com.au

The Wall Street Journal reports that "Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan revealed Turkey's worst-kept political secret: He will run in the country's first direct presidential elections next month in a bid to expand his powers and enable him to govern for another decade".

Erdogan, who has been the subject of corruption allegations backed up by leaked audio recordings of his phone conversations, has decided to 'pull a Putin'. Realising term limits mean he cannot again run for his country's Prime Ministership, he has turned his attention on Turkey's Presidency, which he admitted will now become a more powerful post than it has been under his predecessors.

"With the direct election of the president by the people, the position of the president will be elevated to and regain its original strength to secure the unity of the state and the people," Erdogan said during his campaign announcement.

Regardless of the aforementioned fluff, it is clear that all Erdogan is doing is grasping at another opportunity for power. Power that he should no longer constitutionally have, but is willing to manufacture under the guise of 'democracy' rather than 'dictatorship' - something the West sadly continues to allow him to do as it seeks to manufacture a democratic ally in the Muslim world.

This is all fluff. Fluff because the word bullsh*t is too strong to use for publication.

What else is fluff is Erdogan's Presidential campaign logo. See below:

The American press has highlighted its similarities with their President, Barack Obama's 2008 campaign logo. See the resemblance below:



Let's just assume, because they are good mates, this is not stealing. Let's somehow assume Obama is helping Erdogan by lending him the image that won him an historic Presidency.

Even if we allow for that wishful reasoning, how can we explain the ridiculously resemblance between Erdogan's campaign logo and the logo of popular rum, Malibu (while this image is of an older Malibu bottle, the resemblance is uncanny)? See the comparison below:



Sometimes articles do not need a conclusion, because the saying goes "pictures speak 1,000 words". Then the above two pictures speak 2,000 words that I do not need to type.

I think it is fitting that this fluffy theft of power, from a guy who leads Turkey's denial efforts against the Armenian Genocide, comes with his theft of an image to define his campaign.

Good luck in August Erdogan, although I somehow believe you already know the results.