Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrives at his office to meet with Turkey's chief of staff, General Ilker Basbug, in Ankara on June 16, 2009. Erdogan met with Basbug as tensions rose in Ankara over an alleged military plot to discredit his Islamist-rooted government. Erdogan said his Justice and Development Party (AKP) would lodge a legal complaint over the purported plan, allegedly drawn up at the army headquarters and listing a series of actions to discredit the AKP and an influential religious community close to the government. Getty Images logo Getty Images 5 months ago

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrives at his office to meet with Turkey's chief of staff, General Ilker Basbug, in Ankara on June 16, 2009. Erdogan met with Basbug as tensions rose in Ankara over an alleged military plot to discredit his Islamist-rooted government. Erdogan said his Justice and Development Party (AKP) would lodge a legal complaint over the purported plan, allegedly drawn up at the army headquarters and listing a series of actions to discredit the AKP and an influential religious community close to the government.

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  5. ROME - NOVEMBER 17: Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan delivers a speech during the second day of the World Summit for Food Security 2009 organised by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on November 17, 2009 in Rome, Italy. The summit runs from November 16 until November 18 and will see the participation of more than 60 heads of state and government.
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  11. ROME - NOVEMBER 17: Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan delivers a speech during the second day of the World Summit for Food Security 2009 organised by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on November 17, 2009 in Rome, Italy. The summit runs from November 16 until November 18 and will see the participation of more than 60 heads of state and government.
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  16. ISTANBUL, TURKEY - OCTOBER 6: In this handout image supplied by the IMF, International Monetary Fund's Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister Ali Babacan (L), World Bank President Robert Zoellick (2nd L), Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (2nd R) and International Monetary Fund's Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn (R) talk prior to attending the Opening Plenary of the 2009 IMF and World Bank Annual Meetings at the Istanbul Congress Center on October 6, 2009 in Istanbul, Turkey. The 2009 Annual Meetings of the Boards of Governors of the World Bank Group and the IMF will be held on October 6-7 to discuss the future work of the two institutions and were preceded by meetings of the International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC), the Development Committee.

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