Gul sworn in as Turkey president
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Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul was sworn in as Turkey's president on Tuesday despite the objections of a powerful military that fears a creeping subversion of the country's secular order under the former Islamist.
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Hamid Karzai was due to be sworn in as  Afghanistan's first popularly elected President on Tuesday at a  ceremony attended by two of the figures most responsible for  easing him into power.
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A former soldier, rebel and warlord was sworn in Thursday as the new president of Somalia in the latest attempt to unite the nation under a central government for the first time since 1991.
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Turkey's prime minister returned home Saturday to a hero's welcome with some 2,000 supporters waving Turkish and European Union flags at the airport to celebrate a historic agreement to start membership talks with the EU next year.
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Turkish President Abdullah Gul will make his first visit to Washington as president next month to discuss Turkey's EU accession goals and efforts to quell Kurdish rebels in Iraq, a spokesman said Friday.
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HAMID Karzai was sworn in yesterday as Afghanistan&#39;s first popularly elected president, watched by an audience that included America&#39;s vice-president and defence secretary.
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Hamid Karzai has been sworn in as Afghanistan&#39;s first democratically elected president at a ceremony attended by US Deputy President Dick Cheney and Defence Minister Donald Rumsfeld.
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Pakistan's new prime minister, Shaukat Aziz, a technocrat and trusted ally of military leader President Pervez Musharraf, was sworn on Saturday.
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Martin Torrijos Espino was sworn in as the new Panamanian president on Wednesday in the Atlapa Conventions Center of the capital. In his speech at the inauguration ceremony
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New Turkish President Abdullah Gul approved a pro-EU cabinet on Wednesday which reflected Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's desire to push ahead with stalled political and economic reforms needed to join the bloc.
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In Indonesian Mediawatch this week, the formidable task ahead for President Yudhoyono and his team. On Wednesday Indonesiaâs first democratically elected president was sworn in.
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Turkish MPs are expected to elect a controversial former Islamist, Abdullah Gul, as president of the republic.
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New Turkish President Abdullah Gul approved a pro-EU reformist cabinet on Wednesday which reflected Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's aim to push ahead with stalled political and economic reforms needed to join the bloc.
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Former General Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was sworn in as Indonesia&#39;s first directly elected president, after winning a landslide victory on pledges to tackle corruption, attract investors and create jobs.
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While his party celebrates victory, Turkey's new president seeks to allay secularist fears.
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ISTANBUL, Aug 28 (IPS) - Overriding concerns by the ever-watchful military  and the secularists, Turkey's parliament elected foreign  minister Abdullah Gul as the first Islamic-rooted president of  the 83-year-old republic on Tuesday.
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With former Islamist Abdullah Gul expected to be elected president Tuesday afternoon,  Turkey is anxiously awaiting the reaction of the secular military.