Congratulation Mr. president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Muslim world leader. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was born in Istanbuls Kasımpaşa on February 26, 1954 and graduated from the Istanbul Religious Vocational High School (İmam Hatip Lisesi) in 1973. Erdogan graduated from Marmara Universitys Faculty of Economics and Commercial Sciences in 1981. He engaged in football as an amateur over the years 1969-1982. It was also in those years that Erdoğan began to take his first steps in active politics. An active member of various branches of the Turkish National Students Union in his high school and university years, in 1976, Recep Tayyip Erdogan was elected Chairman of the Beyoğlu Youth Branch of the National Salvation Party (MSP) later to be elected Chairman of the Istanbul Youth Branches of the party in that same year. When the Welfare Party (RP) was established after 1980s military coup, Erdoğan returned to politics and in 1984 he became Beyoğlu District Chairman of that party. Erdogan was later elected as Istanbul Mayor in the local elections of March 27, 1994. He later established the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) with a group of friends on August 14, 2001. He was subsequently elected Founding Chairman of AK Party by the Founding Board. Appointed Prime Minister on March 15, 2003, Erdoğan implemented numerous reforms of vital importance within a short period of time. A great deal was achieved in democratization, attaining transparency and preventing corruption. Parallel to this, inflation, which had adversely affected the countrys economy and the peoples psychological state of mind for decades, it was finally taken under control and the Turkish Lira earned a prestige through the elimination of six zeros. Interest rates for public borrowings were pulled down, per capita income grew significantly. A host of new dams, housing projects, schools, hospitals and power plants were inaugurated at a pace never before witnessed in the history of the country. All of these positive developments were named the Silent Revolution by some foreign observers and Western leaders.
Posted on: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 19:04:19 +0000
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