For those of you who follow Turkish politics, you'll be interested to learn what I take it is the at least somewhat surprising news that Prime Minister Erdogan has renominated (or I guess technically proposed) Abdullah Gul as the next President of Turkey.

Gul's nomination was what precipitated the mini-crisis in Turkey that was resolved by the calling of new elections, which Erdogan's Justice and Development Party won decisively.

My understanding had been that most observers expected that Erdogan, with a renewed popular mandate behind him, would nevertheless make the conciliatory gesture of nominating someone else beside Gul. But apparently that's not the choice he's made.