{"id":29642,"date":"2012-12-07T14:34:37","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T12:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=29642"},"modified":"2022-09-13T12:18:14","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T11:18:14","slug":"egypt-uprisingus-president-barack-obama-calls-mohamed-morsi-and-expresses-concerns-middle-east-news-29642","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/egypt-uprisingus-president-barack-obama-calls-mohamed-morsi-and-expresses-concerns-middle-east-news-29642\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt Uprising:US President Barack Obama calls Mohamed Morsi and expresses concerns \/ Middle East News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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US President Obama says he is deeply concerned about the violence in Cairo as the Egyptian president goes on TV to call for dialogue.<\/h1>\n

The US president welcomed President Mohamed Morsi\u2019s call for a dialogue with the opposition and urged opposition leaders to join in this dialogue without preconditions.<\/p>\n

Egypt’s president had appeared on national television in an attempt to defuse the worst violence seen in the country since last year’s revolution, and he said a controversial decree granting him widespread new powers might be modified.<\/p>\n

Anger over what is perceived as Mr Morsi’s increasingly autocratic rule came to a head on Wednesday when at least six people were killed and almost 700 injured during clashes between his supporters and opponents.<\/p>\n

Members of the main opposition coalition, the National Salvation Front, said they were assessing the offer of dialogue but it was immediately rejected by the pro-democracy movement “April 6”.<\/p>\n

The crisis was sparked by Mr Morsi’s decree on November 22, giving himself wide powers and protecting himself from judicial review.<\/p>\n

The opposition has previously demanded that the president scrap his decree and postpone a referendum on a new draft constitution.<\/p>\n

As well as drawing up a political roadmap, President Morsi said the talks would aim to resolve the fate of the upper house of parliament after the Islamist-dominated lower house was dissolved in June, the election law and other issues.<\/p>\n

“I call for a full, productive dialogue with all figures and heads of parties, revolutionary youth and senior legal figures to meet this Saturday,” he declared.<\/p>\n

Several thousand opposition protesters near the palace waved their shoes in derision after his speech and shouted “killer, killer” and “We won’t go, he will go” – another of the slogans used against Mubarak in last year’s revolt.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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