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 Gürkan Recep Gürkan Recep Gürkan (born 1 August 1964 in İpsala, Edirne Province) is a Turkish politician of the CHP. He was previously a member of Parliament, and since 30 March 2014 he is mayor of Edirne. After finishing school he continued his education at Trakya University in Edirne and the Anadolu University in Eskişehir. His final exams were in the Faculty of Social Science, Department of Administration. After his studies, Guerkan became a teacher and headmaster in a number of Turkish schools, and later vice-director of the National Education Directorate in Edirne. He then had a position in the Coordination