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The first civilian president of Egypt Dr. Mohammed Mursi has become the Egypt’s fifth president. He is first president to be elected after a free election and also first from outside the military. But his victory, over Ahmed Shafiq, 16 months after the military took over on the ouster of Hosni Mubarak, is an ambiguous milestone in Egypt’s promised transition to democracy. Mohamed Mursi had won 13.2 million votes or 51.7 percent, beating Shafiq who garnered 12.3 million votes or almost 48.3 percent. The Muslim Brotherhood victory was not a total surprise as they had been ahead in most polls since the revolution that ousted the tyrant Hosni Mubarak. Mohammed Mursi’s main priorities will be a new constitution, the economy and security. He has moved into his new office in the presidential palace and begun work forming a government he says will represent all of the people. Mursi spokesman, Yasser Ali, said the president’s key concern was political stab...

Abstract The accession of the AKP to the power , by gaining 34. 4 % of the vote and 365 seats marked the beginning of a new era in the Turkish politics. For the first time in the contemporary Turkish politics a pro-Islamic party could govern alone with the old-fashioned Kemalist party Republican People’s Party (CHP) in opposition. In its serious attempt to restructure Turkish politics, AKP kept the Turkish military one of the most important Kemalist bastions in Turkey at a bay. The Turkish military has traditionally been against falling political power in pro-Islamic parties’ hands. So the new scenario raised some question about its secular credentials within some Kemalist and foreign circles alike. A fear of radical changes that may compromise the secular character of the State emerged from different corners . Thus this paper would focus on the evolution of Turkey as a modern nation state. It is necessary to have a glimpse of the history of Turkey as it would make us underst...