Abdullah Gül Abdullah Gül Abdullah Gül (; ; born 29 October 1950) is a Turkish politician who served as the 11th President of Turkey, in office from 2007 to 2014. He previously served for four months as Prime Minister from 2002 to 2003, and concurrently served as both Deputy Prime Minister and as Foreign Minister between 2003 and 2007. He is currently a member of the Advisory Panel for the President of the Islamic Development Bank. Advocating staunch Islamist political views during his university years, Gül became a Member of Parliament for Kayseri in 1991 and was re-elected in 1995, 1999, 2002
Asya Abdullah councils. She was elected as co-chair of the PYD in June 2012 and led the party with Salih Muslim until September 2017. As PYD co-chair, Abdullah represented Rojava in the context of the Syrian Civil War. In an interview, Abdullah declared that “No solution will be found through violence” but that “The formation of the cantons and the construction of democratic autonomy is providing an example for the peoples of the country.” In November 2016, Abdullah gave a keynote speech to the New World Summit in Oslo, describing the revolutionary “Rojava experiment". Abdullah also represented the PYD at a meeting