Prime Minister Davutoglu is in New York with a herd of AKP apparatchiks, trying to extol the wonders of Turkey under AKP control. In speeches to various American financial houses (Merril Lynch etc.) he is trying to calm the nerves of both potential and actual investors in the Turkish economy. Against the backdrop of the Lira plummeting to all time lows - 3.96TL to the £ - but it would appear that no one is listening to him, or his accompanying economics team as the lira continues to fall during, and after his re-assurances. Then again these investors and speculators alike, are reasonably smart, and they know that this puppet Prime Minister is not in charge ..... step forward Reg!! He is currently in Saudi Arabia putting the Saudis right on Middle East and Foreign affairs ..... but the dim, the pious, large sections of the Kurds will still vote for him and the AKP .... you couldn't make it up. Some times I could weep for the Turkish nation.