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Recep Tayyip Erdogan
09/27/2007
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
A conversation with the Prime Minister of Turkey
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A conversation with the Prime Minister of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Recep Erdogan

Recep Tayyip Erdogan is the Prime Minister of Turkey. He is the leader of the Adalet ve Kalkýnma Partisi (AKP, or Justice and Development Party).

Prior to this, Erdogan was head of the Islamist Welfare party. While active in the Welfare party, he was elected mayor of Istanbul in. In 2001, Erdogan and others founded the Justice and Development party as the successor to the banned Welfare party. He has moved from the strongly Islamist positions he once espoused to more mainstream conservative positions, and his government has pursued reforms required for Turkey to enter the European Union.

Source-Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recep_Tayyip_Erdo%C4%9Fan
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