Turkey's prime minister on Wednesday criticized a decision by the country's highest court to annul the first round of a presidential vote in parliament. «The way to elect the president in parliament has been blocked,» Recep Tayyip Erdogan told ruling party lawmakers. «This is a bullet fired at democracy.» On Tuesday, Turkey's highest court canceled the first round of a parliamentary voting process that looked certain to lead to the election as president of the ruling party's candidate, Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul.
