Recep Tayyip Erdogan Quotes
Now we have a menace that is called Twitter. The best examples of lies can be found there. To me, social media is the worst menace to society.
There were large demonstrations in the country against Erdogan’s polices and non democratic tendencies. The demonstrators organized using twitter, and other social media heavily criticized the Prime Minister for trying to depart from the Ataturk secular democracy.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Prime Minister of Turkey (Welfare Party), Mayor of Istanbul, Turkey (Welfare Party), Statement, June 2, 2013
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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.