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,
Turgut Uyar in Posof, Terme and Ankara. He resigned from office in 1958 and divorced his wife in the early 1960s. After moving to Istanbul, he married Tomris Uyar in 1969. He died on 22 August 1985. Turgut Uyar Turgut Uyar (August 4, 1927 – August 22, 1985) was a Turkish poet. Turgut Uyar was born in Ankara on 4 August 1927 as the fifth of the six children of Fatma Hanım and Hayri Bey. His father served as a squadron leader in the army and his mother was a housewife. He studied primary school in different cities of Turkey. Then he