Chief Negotiator for Turkish Accession to the European Union 24 May 2016. With formal accession talks between Turkey and the European Union beginning in the years 2004 and 2005, the role of Chief Negotiator was established to represent the Turkish delegation during the membership negotiations. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan appointed Ali Babacan as the first Chief Negotiator on 17 January 2005, while the then-Foreign Minister Abdullah Gül became the president of the Turkish delegation. When the Ministry of European Union Affairs was established on 29 June 2011 before Erdoğan formed his third and final government, the Minister responsible for the new department began serving concurrently as the Chief
Recep İvedik appears wholly dangerous. It is Sibel's view of him which has changed—and that of the film audience too. The film opened in 230 screens across Turkey on 22 February 2008 with a first weekend gross of $5,330,000. The film has a worldwide gross of $34,878,340. Recep İvedik Recep İvedik is a 2008 Turkish comedy film, directed by Togan Gökbakar, and the name of the main character (also in the sequels Recep İvedik 2, Recep İvedik 3, Recep İvedik 4 and Recep İvedik 5), an oafish man played by Şahan Gökbakar. Recep İvedik takes up residence in an expensive Antalya hotel