...accusing the anti-government press of being hypocritical for not protesting the high-handedness of former President Ahmet Necdet Sezer, who frequently defied the wishes of university faculties. The debate seems less about the role of democracy than about tribal...
...president," Güzel remarks. He recalls how those who criticize Gül's appointments remained silent when former President Ahmet Necdet Sezer acted the same way during his term. Bugün daily's Gülay Göktürk talks about how Turkish universities played a significant...
...averted. While Gul, a member of the Islamic rooted AKP party, will meet Ahmadinejad, the former Turkish President - Ahmet Necdet Sezer - would not invite him. Gul became the country's president last year. Turkish sources and the Turkish media said that the...
...as an attempt to destroy the secular state. Besides, this attempt was abandoned following the veto of former President Ahmet Necdet Sezer. What is even stranger and more worrisome is that the Constitutional Court appears to have seen this attempt as an act...
...secularist establishment, including army generals and judges, view Ahmadinejad with suspicion and previous President Ahmet Necdet Sezer had refused to invite him. Gul, a respected former foreign minister and ex-Islamist, was appointed president last year. Turkish...
... I was particularly struck by the quote he explains from former President Ahmet Necdet Sezer, who said that an individual should adopt secularism as a way of life and "confine religion to the sacred place of his conscience and disallow his...
...faith-inspired projects and civil society; it was also observed in the constant vetoes exercised by former President Ahmet Necdet Sezer, in the baseless insistence on the quorum of 367 during the presidential elections and in the Justice and Development Party...
...for a healthy debate on this issue. 1. Secularism is a way of life and a constitutional principle. On Sept. 20, 2004, Ahmet Necdet Sezer, the president of Turkey at the time, stood before the Directorate of Religious Affairs' third symposium on religious affairs...
...lots, etc. When these are included, the rectors sit on a slice of pie worth YTL 1 billion. During the presidential term of Ahmet Necdet Sezer, rectors were comfortable in that contracts they awarded were not subject to inspection and corruption cases discovered...
...secularists intensified when Gül was nominated for president in a parliamentary vote to choose the successor to Ahmet Necdet Sezer. The opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), and the secular establishment were appalled, not least at the idea of a president...