The müslim brotherhood in politics in egypt: From moderation to authoritarianism?

Arap Baharı dünyanın en eski, en geniş ve en etkili İslami örgütlerinden biri olan ve Arapçada al-Ikhwan al-Muslimun olarak bilinen Müslüman Kardeşler Örgütü'ne Mısırda siyaset üzerinde etkili olma imkanını vermiştir. Hüsnü Mübarek rejiminin yıkılmasının akabinde, Müslüman Kardeşler Örgütü'nün adayı Muhammed Mursi'nin Haziran 2012de başkanlığa seçilmesi, bu yeni rejimin ülkeye demokrasiyi getirip getirmeyeceği konusundaki tartışmayı ortaya çıkarmıştır. Bu makale, Müslüman Kardeşler örgütünün ılımlı özelliklerini açıkladıktan sonra örgütün günümüz Mısır siyasetini yürütürken de bu ılımlı politikaları izleyip izlemeyeceği konusunu inceleyecektir.

Müslüman kardeşler Mısır siyasetinde: Ilımlılıktan otoriterleşmeye mi?

The Arab Spring has given the Muslim Brotherhood (known in Arabic as al-Ikhwan al-Muslimun), one of the oldest, largest and most influential Islamist organizations in the world, its long-waited opportunity to exert its influence on Egyptian politics. Following the collapse ofHosni Mubarak regime, the election of the Muslim Brotherhood's candidate Mohammed Morsi to the presidency of Egypt in June 2012, has started a new debate on whether this new regime will be able to bring democracy to Egypt or not. This article, by mainly examining moderate features of the Muslim Brotherhood, aims at analyzing its impact on the current Egyptian politics to predict whether it will be able to continue its moderate tendencies or not.

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