Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
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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.
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
Welfare Party
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The Welfare Party was an Islamist political party in Turkey. It was founded by Ali Türkmen, Ahmet Tekdal, and Necmettin Erbakan in Ankara in 1983 as heir to two earlier parties, National Order Party (MNP) and National Salvation Party (MSP), which were banned from politics. The RP participated in mayoral elections at that time and won in three cities Konya, Şanlıurfa, and Van. Their vote percentage was approximately 5%.
A clock displaying the emblem of the Welfare Party. The party slogan translates as "Justice is our goal."