Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu is a Turkish diplomat and politician who is currently a member of the Grand National Assembly. He also served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey from August 2014 to August 2015, and again from 24 November 2015 to 6 June 2023.
Çavuşoğlu in 2023
Çavusoğlu in a meeting with US President Biden, Turkish President Erdoğan and US Secretary of State Blinken, October 2021
Çavusoğlu at NATO headquarters in Brussels in April 2021
Çavuşoğlu with Dutch Foreign Minister Sigrid Kaag in Ankara, 2 September 2021
Justice and Development Party (Turkey)
The Justice and Development Party, abbreviated officially as AK Party in English, is a political party in Turkey self-describing as conservative-democratic. It has been the ruling party of Turkey since 2003. Third-party sources often refer to the party as national conservative, social conservative, right-wing populist and as espousing neo-Ottomanism. The party is generally regarded as being right-wing on the political spectrum, although some sources have described it as far-right since 2011. It is one of the two major parties of contemporary Turkey along with the Republican People's Party (CHP).
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 Erdoğan among other leaders at the European People's Party Congress in 2009
Image: Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ukraine
