Georgian Muslims - Recep Tayyip Erdo?an, Ali Mirza of Kakheti, Yusef Khan-E Gorji (Paperback)

Chapters: Recep Tayyip Erdo?an, Ali Mirza of Kakheti, Yusef Khan-E Gorji. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 27. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Recep Tayyip Erdoan (Turkish pronunciation: born February 26, 1954) is a Turkish politician, a former mayor of Istanbul and the Prime Minister of the Republic of Turkey since 14 March 2003. He is also the chairman of the Justice and Development Party (AK Parti), which holds a majority of the seats in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. Erdoan graduated in 1981 from Marmara University's Faculty of Economics and Commercial Sciences. He was involved in politics at the age of eighteen. In 1976, Erdoan was elected chairman of the Youth Branch of a Turkish political party for Istanbul. Erdoan was also engaged in the sport as a semi-professional football player from 1969 to 1982. Erdoan was elected Mayor of Istanbul in the local elections of March 27, 1994. He was sentenced to a prison term because of a poem he recited during a public address in the province of Siirt on December 12, 1997. The poem was quoted from a book published by a state enterprise and one that had been recommended to teachers by the Ministry of Education. After four months in prison, Erdoan established the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) on August 14, 2001. From its first year, the AK Party became the largest publicly-supported political movement in Turkey. In 2002, the general elections resulted with the AK Party winning two-thirds of the seats in parliament, forming a single-party government after 19 years. As prime minister, Erdoan implemented numerous reforms within a period of time. After 45 years, the negotiations for Turkey's accession to the EU started during Erdoan's tenure. A great deal was achieved in democratization, attaining transparency, and preven...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=376619