Mursi should follow the Turkish model

LAST week Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi granted himself sweeping powers and decreed that the courts could not challenge any decision taken by the president. The immediate suspicion was that the Muslim Brotherhood, swept into power by the Arab Spring, was trying to consolidate an Islamic state that could not removed democratically in future. The Egyptian stock market crashed and Tahrir Square once again filled with demonstrators. Mursi is now trying to backtrack by saying that the measures were only 'temporary' until a new constitution is finalised...