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 Cansever Turgut Cansever Turgut Cansever (12 September 1921 - 22 February 2009, İstanbul) Turkish Architect, city planner, thinker. He's the only architect in the World that took Aga Khan Award for Architecture for three times. He's also known as "The Wise Architect". He took charge in many town, zoning and protection areas projects. He designed Beyazıt Square. He is the owner of the first art history doctoral thesis. He was born in Antalya in 1921. He's the eldest of five children of Hasan Ferit and his wife Saime. His father Hasan Ferit was the son of Kasimpasa Turabi dervish lodge sheikh