Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey
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What reason can justify such savagery?\" Erdogan said in a speech to his Islamist-rooted Justice and Development Party", "Middle East Online.
History will judge Israel for leaving black stain on humanity", "Ankara: In possibly the harshest criticism towards Israel yet, Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said that history will ultimately judge Israel for the black stain it is leaving on humanity.
After all, Turkish society is strongly opposed to the military operation, and Erdogan was reflecting itsviews.
Erdogan starts regional tour aimed at ending bloodshed", "By The Daily Star and Agence France Presse (AFP) Thursday, January 01, 2009 - Powered by DAMASCUS: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan met Syrian President Bashar Assad on Wednesday on the first stop of a regional tour focusing on Israel's deadly onslaught against the Gaza Strip.
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Erdogan has in recent years changed from being an outspoken.
Erdogan has in recent years changed from being an outspoken Islamist into becoming a moderate conservative politician.
Erdogan has further expressed that he would like to introduce changes to the laws governing political parties, as well as to the election laws, in order to make Turkey more democratic and pluralist.
Erdogan is generally considered to be among Turkey's most charismatic politicians, proven by the landslide victory of AK in the general elections of late 2002.
Following his sentence of 1998, Erdogan was barred from entering parliament or serving any position in a government.
Erdogan has a degree in management from Marmara University in Istanbul.
Despite his education, Erdogan has been accused of showing little sophistication, speaking only his native language and knowing little about the rudiments of economics.
Mr Erdogan came to office a popular politician.
But Mr Erdogan has sought to moderate his position since coming to government.
Few critics, however, would deny that Mr Erdogan has presided over a government that has reformed and has modernised the country faster and more effectively than most of its predecessors.
Mr Erdogan has avoided the sensitive issue of Islamic dress for women, even though his own wife, Emine, wears a headscarf.
Mr Erdogan has tried to settle crisis by calling for early elections.
At least four people have been killed and 52 injured -- six critically -- after a car bomb exploded in the Turkish city of Diyarbakir Thursday, prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said Ankara is prepared to play the role of a 'positive' mediator in Iran's nuclear talks.
Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has voiced his country's readiness to mediate between the new Obama administration and Iran.
Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is to take part in four-way talks on the Middle East peace process in Damascus this week.
Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has described the Constitutional Court's decision not to ban AKP as a victory for 'democracy.
The visit of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan came during a flurry of announcements from Arab countries pledging to refresh relations with Iraq.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday that "the situation in Iraq is not positive at all," contrary to US.
Erdogan has been at the center of some of the most challenging and thorny issues of our times: candidacy in Turkey for membership in the European Union, the future of Cyprus, turmoil in the Middle East, the war in Iraq, politics of energy and oil, and the divide between the world of Islam and the West.
Erdogan had some constructive ideas about the Iraq and it was also interesting to hear how much help Turkey provides in Iraq which we never get to hear over here.
Your interview with PM Erdogan was one of the most interesting/impressive talks in your program.
Erdogan has a lot of contructive ideas and clearly he has positive influence in a region where the US policy is in deep trouble, however, what is really the most significant here is that it is clear that he is a rational person.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan is the prime minister of Turkey and the chairman of the ruling Justice and Development Party.
The Islamic world follows very closely Turkey's joining the EU," Erdogan said during an interview later that night at the Ciragan Palace Hotel on the shores of the Bosporus.
Starting a war is always easier than ending it.
Turkey Ponders Iraq CampaignOct 12 - By Associated PressPrime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday that Turkey would not be deterred by the possible consequences of invading Iraq if it decides to stage a cross-border offensive against Kurdish rebels.
comTurkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has attacked environmental protesters in the country describing them as 'idle.
The leader of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), Erdogan took over the prime minister's post from his party deputy, Abdullah Gul, who headed the government following the AKP's landslide victory in the November 2002 elections.
Erdogan was born in Rize in northern Turkey on 26 February 1954.
Erdogan was elected to a four-year term as mayor of Istanbul in 1994, as a candidate from Necmettin Erbakan's Welfare party.
As mayor, Erdogan was credited by the public for improving services, as well as for making the city greener and cleaner.
The Constitutional Court banned the Welfare party in 1998 and Erdogan joined the Virtue party, which emerged from the ashes of its outlawed predecessor.
Although Erdogan was the most popular politician in Turkey at the time of the vote, he was constitutionally barred from running for public office, and thus could not win the parliamentary seat he needed in order to become prime minister.
Erdogan is married and has four children.
In an interview with DER SPIEGEL, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan discusses Iran's nuclear program, Turkey's geopolitical role, its ties with the European Union and his difficult relationship with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
But as Prime Minister, Erdogan has kept religion off the agenda.
And Erdogan has vigorously pursued ties with the West, campaigning to get his country admitted to the European Union and for a deal to reunite Cyprus.
Jerusalem, Jan 5 : Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has used exceptionally harsh words to describe Israel's offensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, despite both countries enjoying good bilateral ties.
Speaking in Antalya following his Middle Eastern tour, Erdogan said Israel was perpetrating inhumane actions which would bring it to destroy itself, The Jerusalem Post reported.
we cannot remain silent, Erdogan said before leaving for Syria.
Talking to media after his ceremonial reception at President House this morning, Erdogan said that the two countries have come closer and deeper during the last five years to further their commercial and cultural ties.
Erdogan is accompanied by a high level delegation including three ministers as well as lawmakers and business leaders.
Baghdad - Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was expected to begin a landmark visit to Baghdad Thursday, to boost ties with its southern neighbour marred at times by Kurdish rebel attacks on Turkey from bases in northern Iraq.
Erdogan was expected to seal a strategic partnership agreement with Iraq that will boost cooperation in all areas, including security, an official from Iraq's Foreign Ministry, Labid Abawi, was quoted as saying by Iraqi media.
Speaking for the first time since the court ruled on Thursday that constitutional amendments moved by the Islamist-rooted Justice and Development Party (AKP) were against the secular status of the state, Erdogan said he would wait until the court explains the decision before making a detailed reply.
On 5 September, while addressing the sixth meeting of the Eurasian Islamic Council in Istambul, Erdogan said that he had inserted an article into the declaration in the European Council on Islamophobia, stipulating that anti-Islamism should be accepted as a crime against humanity.
While the military are still predominantly pro-secular, the AKP party of Erdogan is playing directly to the people of the rural heartlands, who find it easier to look back into a traditional Islamic past, rather than into the modernist, potentially European, future.
Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has previously said that Turkey will not bother starting talks if anything short of full membership is offered.
At his by-election victory speech, Erdogan had declared his commitment to secularism, which has been in place in the country since the days of Kemal Ataturk.
On April 27, the Turkish Daily News stated that Erdogan had said: "For those who keep their children in the streets or allow them to be used by the , their tears tomorrow will be in vain.
Turkey is divided in two and has been ever since Erdogan came to power.
By using the EU as a political "safety net", Erdogan is said to be avoiding the threat of a military coup, which has been the fate of previous governments which have veered not nearly so far in the direction of Islamism.
Erdogan had tried to force legislation, which would have allowed graduates of Islamic clerical training schools to enter universities.
When in 2004, Hilal Incesu commented on how Erdogan had sued another newspaper, Evrensel for showing a caricature of the president, receiving a fine of 6,000 Euros, ($7,586) he too was prosecuted.
The work was par of an exhibition entitled Global Peace and Justice Coalition, and Dickinson had done the picture to highlight the way Erdogan had sued cartoonists for depicting him as an animal.
But now, it appears that Erdogan is trying to turn the clock back, and his greatest support comes from the southeast of Turkey, the same regions where in 1924 the Islamists tried to derail secularism.
Erdogan is the Prime Minister, and the current President of Turkey, occupying the same position once held by Kemal Ataturk is the fiercely secularist Ahmet Necdet Sezer.
Next year, there will be elections for the presidency, and Erdogan has made it plain that he intends to stand.
STRASBOURG, 29 June 2006 - The incitement to hatred of Islam should be considered a crime against humanity, Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in a speech before the Council of Europe in Strasbourg yesterday.
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is the head of government for Turkey.
Turkeys Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has often shown his true Islamist colors during his years in office, but nothing quite like his behavior and words since Israel decided to attack Hamas eighteen days ago.
Speaking outside a private hospital in Ankara afterwards, Erdogan said Turkey was ready.
India and Turkey, a secular Muslim-majority country that is seeking to join the European Union, are set to energize their political and economic ties when Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan comes here on a four-day visit Thursday.
ANKARA (Xinhua) -- Turkeys Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday that Turkey and Arab states bear great responsibility in the solution of problems encountered in the Middle East and the surrounding region, the semi-official Anatolia.