Celik, Logoglu comment on latest situation in Egypt

Muslim Brotherhood's Mohamed Morsi is no longer Egypt's head of state, after the army announced yesterday a new political roadmap. The army appointed head of the Constitutional Court Adly Mansour as the interim president of a national technocratic government to be established.  Egyptian army is holding ousted President Mohamed Morsi at a military facility in Cairo and other Muslim Brotherhood leaders have been arrested in a crackdown on the movement that won several elections last year. Army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who had been appointed by Morsi, said that the Constitution had been temporarily suspended, announcing the formation of a national reconciliation committee that will include youth movements. Commenting on Egyptian army's coup, ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) spokesperson Huseyin Celik said it was a sign of "backwardness. "Morsi deservedly won by his own efforts the elections organized by a bureaucracy inherited from Hosni Mubarak's era and that took weeks to come to a conclusion," Celik said. Comparing the incidents in Egypt with the coups that occurred in 1960 and 1980, Celik said that coup in Egypt has also received foreign support and some Western countries have not accepted Muslim Brotherhood's arrival to power. He said they did not know whether Morsi could resist against tanks and artillery cannons. "If Morsi's supporters fight with his opponents, blood will be shed. We will not approve that," Celik said. Meanwhile, main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) deputy leader Faruk Logoglu also expressed concern regarding the situation in Egypt. He said the developments could disrupt the democratization process launched following the Arap Spring, adding that the CHP is not in favor of the army meddling with politics.