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In this photo provided by Turkish Prime Minister's Press Service, Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping, left, poses for cameras with Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Istanbul, Turkey, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012. Uighur protesters in Ankara... View Photo »
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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (C) arrives for a meeting in Ankara on February 9, 2012. View Photo »
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Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses the lawmakers of his Islamic-rooted party at the parliament in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012. Erdogan, calling the veto at the UN Security Council a "fiasco" said his country can't remain... View Photo »
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Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses lawmakers of his party at the parliament in Ankara on February 7, 2012. Erdogan today announced a new initiative with regional players to halt months-long violence in Syria after the veto of a UN... View Photo »
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A woman holds a placard that reads "Assasin Assad get out of Syria" as Syrians living in Turkey stage a protest outside the Syrian consulate to condemn the latest killings by Syrian regime in Syria, in Istanbul, Turkey, Monday, Feb. 6, 2012. Turkey's... View Photo »
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A woman shouts slogans as Syrians living in Turkey stage a protest outside the Syrian consulate to condemn the latest killings by Syrian regime in Syria, in Istanbul, Turkey, Monday, Feb. 6, 2012. Turkey's President Abdullah Gul and Prime Minister Recep... View Photo »
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A woman shows her hand painted as a Syrian flag as Syrians living in Turkey stage a protest outside the Syrian consulate to condemn the latest killings by Syrian regime in Syria, in Istanbul, Turkey, Monday, Feb. 6, 2012. Turkey's President Abdullah Gul... View Photo »
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Riot police stand at the entrance of the Syrian consulate as Syrians living in Turkey stage a protest outside the Syrian consulate to condemn the latest killings by the Syrian regime in Syria, in Istanbul, Turkey, Monday, Feb. 6, 2012. Turkey's... View Photo »
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A Turkish couple pose for a photo in front of the mausoleum of the founder of modern Turkey Kemal Ataturk in Ankara, Turkey, Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012. For adversaries in a long-distance spat, they made an odd couple. Turkey's leader, Prime Minister Recep... View Photo »
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People holds national flags with posters of the founder of modern Turkey Kemal Ataturk at his mausoleum in Ankara, Turkey, Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012. For adversaries in a long-distance spat, they made an odd couple. Turkey's leader, Prime Minister Recep... View Photo »
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Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses members of his ruling AK Party in front of portraits Mustafa Kemal Ataturk (L), founder of modern Turkey, and himself during a meeting at his party headquarters in Ankara on February 1, 2012. ... View Photo »
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Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses members of his ruling AKP party in Ankara on February 1, 2012. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday warned of rising racism and Islamophobia in Europe as he once again denounced... View Photo »
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Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan addresses his lawmakers at the parliament in Ankar on January 31, 2012. Turkey on Tuesday welcomed a move by a group of French senators to ask the constitutional council in Paris to block a contentious bill... View Photo »
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Newspapers are displayed at a newsstand on January 24, 2012 in the Karakoy neighborhood of Istanbul. Turkish newspapers criticized the January 23 vote by the French Senate making denial of the Armenian genocide a crime. The French Senate on January 23... View Photo »
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A man buys a newspaper on January 24, 2012, featuring the headline: 'Satan Sarkozy,' in the Karakoy neighborhood of Istanbul. Turkish newspapers were reacting to the January 23 vote by the French Senate making denial of the Armenian genocide a crime. ... View Photo »
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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses lawmakers and supporters of his party at the parliament in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012, a day after France's Senate voted a law that would make it a crime in France to deny that the... View Photo »
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FILE - In this Jan. 24, 2012 file photo, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses lawmakers at the parliament in Ankara, Turkey. For adversaries in a long-distance spat, they made an odd couple. Turkey's leader, a brash visionary who... View Photo »
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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses lawmakers and supporters of his party at the parliament in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012, a day after the French Senate voted to make it a crime in France to deny that the killing of... View Photo »
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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan salutes lawmakers and supporters of his party as he addresses at the parliament in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012, a day after France's Senate voted a law that would make it a crime in France to deny that... View Photo »
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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses lawmakers at the parliament in Ankara on January 24, 2012. Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday slammed as discriminatory and racist a bill passed by the French Senate making denial of the Armenian... View Photo »
About Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (b. February 26, 1954 in Rize, Turkey) is serving as the Prime Minister of Turkey since March 14, 2003. He is the chairman of the Justice and Development Party (Turkish: Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi, or AKP). Full Article
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Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and South Korea's Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan (L) pose before a meeting in Ankara January 20, 2012.
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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right and Kim Sung-Hwan, Republic of Korea’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, shake hands before a meeting in Ankara, Turkey, Friday, Jan. 20. 2012.
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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, and Iran's Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi seen during a meeting in Ankara, Turkey, Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012. Salehi said Istanbul is the likely venue for further talks on his country's nuclear program with world powers that have...
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Turkish President Abdullah Gul (L), Turkish Cypriot leader Dervis Eroglu (2nd-L), Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (C) and Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu (R) attend the funeral of veteran nationalist Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash in the Turkish-occupied...
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Emine Erdogan, wife of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan cries as she speaks at a meeting of spouses of the heads of state of government, that brought together among others, Libyan leader Moamer Khadafi's daughter Aisha Moamer al-Khadafi, Pakistani First Lady Begum Fauzia...
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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left, Turkish President Abdullah Gul, center, Turkish Cypriot leader Dervis Eroglu, right, the wife of Rauf Denktash Aydin, second right, with her son Serdar Denktash, third right, attend the funeral ceremony of former Turkish Cypriot leader...
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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, and Fenerbahce officials stand next to the flag-draped coffin of Lefter Kucukandonyadis, a Turkish soccer legend and the captain of Fenerbahce and national team for decades, during a funeral ceremony as about 10,000 people, bid him...
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Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (R) and Tunisia's Foreign Minister Rafik Abdessalem pose before a meeting in Ankara January 10, 2012.
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In this image released by the Prime Ministry Press Service Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, and Tunisia's Foreign Minister Rafik Abdessalem seen during a meeting in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2012.
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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses his lawmakers at the parliament in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2012. Turkey's main People's PartyRepublican People's Party leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu on Tuesday accused the judiciary of doing the government's bidding after a...
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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan gestures as he addresses members of the parliament from his ruling AK Party (AKP) during a meeting at the Turkish parliament in Ankara, on January 10, 2012. Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned on January 9 that civil war was looming in neighbouring...
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Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (R) give a press conference after a meeting with Norway's Prime Minister in Ankara on January 9, 2012.
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