What Is The Most Recent Development In Turkey In The Context Of The Upcoming Presidential Elections?

For the upcoming presidential elections in Turkey, the only candidate to stand for president was Mr. Abdullah Gul.  Most recently Mr.Gul has withdrawn his name just after the parliament beheld a failure in its attempts to vote him into presidential office.  Abdullah Gul, who belongs to the ruling Justice and Development Party and is a senior member there, elucidated his disapproval about the prospect of a second-round vote.   The party that Mr.Gul belongs to has a deep kinship with the once-banned Islamist group in Turkey- a kinship that dates back to many years ago.  His withdrawal came in the aftermath of his intention to revive an Islamist system in the infrastructure of Turkey, a rationale that earned him enormous disapproval and fulsome contempt from the masses of his homeland.  Many groups of protestors had even taken to the streets to express their height of disapproval about the prospect of making Abdullah Gul the president of Turkey.