Via the BBC: Turkish MPs elect Gul president
Mr Gul was elected in a third round of voting, after months of tension between Turkey’s ruling Islamist-rooted AK Party and the secular establishment.The vote came a day after a new warning from the military about attempts to undermine the secular constitution.
Mr Gul, whose wife wears a Muslim headscarf, has pledged to respect Turkey’s secular institutions.
And now we wait and see whether Gul will, in fact, threaten the secular institutions of Turkey or if he will not. Indeed, this makes for an intriguing experiment in terms of various claims about Islam and democracy.
A key issue to watch: Gul and the AKP on the subject of EU entry, a subject which they are in favor of pursing more vigorously.
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August 28th, 2007 at 6:08 pm
GWOT Update, Heavily Iraq-Centered, As Usual.
The advances made by locals, as opposed to the troubles of the Sadrists and other bad actors are also lovingly reported at The Thunder Run.
Though the big news takes these sorts of tensions with the Mahdi Army, really Iraqi security forces’ pur…