2014 Turkish presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Turkey on 10 August 2014 in order to elect the 12th President. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was elected outright with an absolute majority of the vote in the first round, making a scheduled run-off for 24 August unnecessary.
Image: Erdogan 2014
Image: Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu (1) (cropped)
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Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, serving leader of the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) since 2001 and Prime Minister of Turkey since 2003, received 311 nominations.
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is a Turkish politician who is the 12th and current president of Turkey. He previously served as prime minister from 2003 to 2014 as part of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), which he co-founded in 2001. He also served as mayor of Istanbul from 1994 to 1998.
Erdoğan in 2022
Prime Minister Erdoğan on 18 March 2008, during the Çanakkale Victory and Martyrs' Remembrance Day ceremony
Party leader Erdoğan's meeting with Romano Prodi (President of the European Commission) and Günter Verheugen (European Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement) in Brussels, Belgium, 2002
Prime Minister Erdoğan during a press conference with Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, at the Office of the Prime Minister (Başbakanlık), in 2014
