Recep Tayyip Erdoğan 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 in 2002, 2007 and 2011 before standing down upon his election as President in 2014. Coming from an Islamist political background and as a self-described conservative democrat, he has promoted socially conservative and liberal economic policies in his administration. Under his administration,
Zal Cleminson 2018 and is now a permanent member of the band and will perform with the band at all their live shows and future recordings. Cleminson is referenced in the novel "The Sacred Art of Stealing" by the Scottish author Christopher Brookmyre as the basis of the disguises worn by bank robbers during a heist, and inspired the name of the character Zal Innez. Guthrie Govan has cited Cleminson as one of his most important influences and considers him to have been "his Jimmy Page" in his early guitar development. Zal Cleminson Alistair Macdonald "Zal" Cleminson (born 4 May 1949, Glasgow,