This election is taking place because when the AKP party, the conservative party now in power, designated Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul as its candidate for president, the country’s secular elite cringed. Gul was not the issue; the issue was his wife.
举行这一选举的原因是由于目前当政的正义和发展党指定外交部长居尔为其总统候选人之时，该国的世俗势力大为不快。居尔本人不是问题；问题是他的妻子。如果居尔被选举为总统，那么，土耳其将会产生第一个佩戴头巾的第一夫人。