Educated in an Imam Hatip school, Erdoğan was a semi-professional footballer playing for Kasımpaşa Spor Kulübü and was involved in Islamist political movements as a student before being elected as the Mayor of İstanbul from the Islamist Welfare Party in 1994. He was banned form office and sentenced to 10 months in prison for religious intolerance in 1998 and later abandoned openly Islamist politics, establishing the moderate conservative AKP in 2001. Winning just short of a two-thirds parliamentary majority in the 2002 general election, the party's co-founder Abdullah Gül became Prime Minister until his government annulled Erdoğan's ban from political office. Erdoğan subsequently became Prime Minister in March 2003 after winning a seat in a by-election held in Siirt.
Back in the 1990s Recep Tayyip Erdogan likened democracy to a bus ... It also gives Erdogan three years to try to ride out the current storm of protests and then fix a battered economy before the presidential elections of 2028.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday that Türkiye would not allow the sabotage of Syria’s territorial integrity and the festering of instability across its southern border.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday that Türkiye would not allow the sabotage of Syria’s territorial integrity or the festering of instability across its own southern border.
Turkey is in turmoil after Istanbul mayor and candidate for president Ekrem Imamoglu was charged with offences of bribery and corruption, which sparked sustained protests against the rule of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday that Türkiye would not allow Syria’s territorial integrity to be sabotaged or the festering of instability across the southern Turkish border.
...Imamoglu, on corruption charges his supporters say are false, sparked the most significant anti-government protests in Turkiye in over a decade, in a major test for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
... Ekrem Imamoglu, on corruption charges his supporters say are false, sparked the most significant anti-government protests in Turkey in over a decade in a major test for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Turkish prosecutors had already opened an investigation into Medin in 2023 over a demonstration he joined in Stockholm in which a puppet of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was hung from its feet, according to the presidency's statement Sunday ...AFP ... .
Turkish prosecutors had already opened an investigation into Medin in 2023 over a demonstration he joined in Stockholm in which a puppet of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was hung from its feet, according to the presidency's statement Sunday ... ....
Türkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Saturday discussed bilateral ties between the two nations, as well as global and regional ...