Cabinet Gül Cabinet Gül The cabinet of Abdullah Gül took office on November 19, 2002. He succeeded to the fifth government of Bülent Ecevit. After the Justice and Development Party (AKP) became the biggest party in the general elections of 2002, its leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan could not be Prime Minister because of a previous conviction and bar from politics. So the second person in the party, Abdullah Gül, formed the 58th government of Turkey. After the legal and political problems for Erdoğan had been eliminated, Abdullah Gül stepped aside and became the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the next government while
Recep Altepe Mr Kadir Topbaş, Mayor of Istanbul. In October 2009 the Turkish press claimed that he was devoting much of his energy to the development of the Uludağ resort. He is also active in the Healthy Cities Association of Turkey. Recep Altepe Recep Altepe, (born 1959, Bursa, Turkey) is a Turkish politician and the current mayor of Bursa. He graduated from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Gazi University. He began his political life with the Welfare Party. In the 2004 local elections he was elected to the Osmangazi Municipality. In the 2009 local elections he was elected to the Bursa