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
Şerif Turgut Şerif Turgut Şerif Turgut is a Turkish journalist and the first woman war correspondent of Turkey, best known for her coverage during the Bosnian War. Şerif Turgut received her master's degree in international politics from George Washington University, USA. She decided to be a war correspondent when she saw the photographs from the Omarska camp, a death camp in Bosnia and Herzegovina set up and run by the Army of Republika Srpska in the first months of Bosnian War. She went to Bosnia on her own as a freelance journalist. Intended in the beginning to stay ten days only, she