Melih Gökçek
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İbrahim Melih Gökçek is a Turkish politician who served as the mayor of Ankara from 1994 to 2017. From 1991 to 1994, he was an MP. Gökçek has won municipal elections in 1994, 1999, 2004, 2009, and was
Melih Gökçek in 2013
Gökçek with Mayor of Tehran, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf signing a sister city contract
The Justice and Development Party, abbreviated officially as AK Party in English, is a political party in Turkey. It has been the ruling party of Turkey since 2002. Third-party sources often refer to
Melih Gökçek
…Gökçek has won municipal elections in 1994, 1999, 2004, 2009, and was controversially also declared the winner in 2014. He is a member of the governing AK Party. Gökçek was born at Keçiören. Gökçek‘s father Ahmet was Turkish originally from Halfeti and worked as a lawyer in Gaziantep, where he also lived with…
The Republic Protests took place in 2007 in support of the Kemalist reforms, particularly state secularism and democracy, against the perceived Islamization of Turkey under the ruling Justice and Development Party.
A rally of the Justice and Development Party in 2007
Picture of Erdogan among other leaders at the European People's Party Congress in 2009
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