The Turkish Daily News has a good summary of where things stand now in the political crisis.

The Washington Post, meanwhile, chimes in with a weak editorial. What the Post failed to mention is that Erdogan faces a dozen corruption charges; arcane rules matter and it is the court’s right to rule upon them; and that the AKP has moved to muzzle opposition press, retire almost half of Turkey’s 9,000 secular judges; has ignored Supreme Court rulings against it; cannot account for the influx of cash into its party coffers; and has targeted secular university rectors. Nor has Erodgan been stalwart in the EU drive; indeed, he has condemned EU institutions and filibustered the appointment of negotiators. The Post also neglected to mention that the President is not elected, but rather selected by the parliament and that the AKP has refused efforts to either elect directly the President or enable early parliamentary elections in order to enable a more direct popular role. If the AKP were as popular as the Post editorial board imagines, they would not stand to lose half their seats according to many polls in the next election. The list goes on…