2014 Recep Tayyip Erdoğan presidential campaign 2014 Recep Tayyip Erdoğan presidential campaign The Justice and Development Party Vice President announced that their candidate for Turkish presidential election, 2014 was going to be the Prime Minister and the party leader, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Erdoğan accepted the nomination and ran a 40-day campaign which ended in victory. Erdoğan was elected the 12th President of Turkey and was sworn in on August 28, 2014. Turkish and international media speculated that Recep Tayyip Erdoğan would almost certainly be the AK Party's candidate for the Presidency and on July 1, 2014, at a Justice and Development Party convention, The Party's Vice
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