Recep Tayyip Erdoğan the statue a "freak", and months later it was demolished. Aksoy sued Erdoğan for "moral indemnities", although his lawyer said that his statement was a critique rather than an insult. In March 2015, a judge ordered Erdoğan to pay Aksoy 10,000 lira. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (; ; born 26 February 1954) is a Turkish politician serving as President of Turkey since 2014. He previously served as Prime Minister from 2003 to 2014 and as Mayor of Istanbul from 1994 to 1998. He founded the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in 2001, leading it to general election victories
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