Recep Tayyip Erdogan Quotes
Everyone should unconditionally accept that Israel is an indispensable element of the Middle Eastern mosaic.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Prime Minister of Turkey (Welfare Party), Mayor of Istanbul, Turkey (Welfare Party), Quoted in The Turkish Weekley, February 14, 2012
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Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is a Turkish politician serving as the current President of Turkey. He previously served as Prime Minister of Turkey from 2003 to 2014 and as Mayor of Istanbul from 1994 to 1998. He founded the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in 2001, leading it to election victories in 2002, 2007, and 2011 before being required to stand down upon his election as President in 2014. He later returned to the AKP leadership in 2017 following the constitutional referendum that year. Coming from an Islamist political background and self-describing as a conservative democrat, he has promoted socially conservative and populist policies during his administration.
