so are the turkish people happy to have an islamic leader today?

I think half of them are happy and half of them are not. The president does not call himself an Islamist. He says he has changed and that the secularism is not in danger. But the secularists and the army choose not to believe that because of his background as a radical Islamist and what he has said back in 1990s.

Why do I say half of the people; because this running party which the president Gul comes from had the 47 percent of votes in last month's elections. People have voted for them not becuase they are Islamists but because of the economic stability during the time of their run.

Now, they say the country is polarized. Some of the Turkish people choose to believe whoever gives them economic prosperity. Secularism, democracy are all in the second plan. They chose not to believe secularism is in danger but it will be too late to recover once the true faces of these Islamists show themselves.

I find it hard to believe that a bunch of men over their 50s who believed in radical Islam back then suddenly changing and believing in secularism. Those who oppose the party in power thinks the same but they got 47 percent of the votes so nothing can be said. I repeat, i dont beleive that percentage shows the true believers in Islam to be represented in poltics. A lot of those votes come from those who want the stability in economics to go on.

US and EU support his election as the president because they think thats the way its supposed to be in a democracy.

We'll see.

Maybe, but they won't be so happy when their EU application goes to the circular file because of it.