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Recep Tayyip Erdoğan [b] (born 26 February 1954) is a Turkish politician who is the 12th and current president of Turkey since 2014. He previously served as the 25th prime minister from 2003 to 2014 as part of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), which he co-founded in 2001.
12th prime minister of Turkey 10 Ahmet Necdet Sezer (born 1941) 2000: 16 May 2000: 28 August 2007 7 years, 104 days Independent: 14th president of the Constitutional Court of Turkey: 11 Abdullah Gül (born 1950) 2007: 28 August 2007: 28 August 2014 7 years AK Party: 40th minister of foreign affairs: 12 Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (born 1954) 2014: 28 ...
The president of Turkey is referred to as Cumhurbaşkanı ("Republic leader"), and previously archaically as Cumhurreisi or Reis-i Cumhur, also meaning "head of the republic/people". [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is the 12th and current president of Turkey, who has held the office since 28 August 2014.
The results in a second round of voting — held in a sports hall in Ankara — saw Ozel take 812 of 1,366 delegate votes to become the CHP’s 8th leader. Turkey's main opposition party elects ...
Turkey will hold a presidential runoff vote May 28 after neither leading candidate was able to win an outright majority in Sunday's election.
[29] [30] Erdoğan has used this consensus to remove Gulen followers from the bureaucracy, curtail their role in NGOs, Turkey's Ministry of Religious Affairs and the Turkish military, with 149 Generals discharged. [31] In a foreign policy shift Erdoğan ordered the Turkish Armed Forces into battle in Syria and has liberated towns from IS ...
ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkey's main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) on Sunday elected Ozgur Ozel as its new leader, ending a 13-year term for incumbent Kemal Kilicdaroglu, as the country ...
Throughout the Cold War, Turkey's most important ally has been the United States, which shared Turkey's interest in containing Soviet expansion. [29] [30] In support of the United States, Turkey contributed personnel to the UN forces in the Korean War (1950–1953), joined NATO in 1952, recognized Israel in 1948 and has cooperated closely with ...