Article: TURKEY - Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Aged almost 52, Erdogan was a mayor of Istanbul and member of Necmettin Erbakan's Islamist movement in the 1990s. He founded the AKP after Erbakan's movement was banned in 1998. He became PM in March 2003 after winning a seat in parliament and after he was cleared of a 1999 court conviction for inciting religious hatred (comparing minarets with bayonets). But now he is the most popular politician in Turkey. When in late 2002 then Italian PM Berlusconi ...

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