11th President of Turkey (born 1950)
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He bridged Turkey's Islamist past and its bid for modern respectability, serving as the country's first president from a religious political background — then spent seven years signing laws that chipped away at the secular limits he'd once promised to respect.
Born 29 October 1950, Gül entered parliament in 1991 as a staunch Islamist, riding the wave of the Welfare Party until it was banned for anti-secular activity. When the successor Virtue Party split in 2000, he sided with Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's reformist camp, losing a leadership race but co-founding the moderate Justice and Development Party in 2001. The AKP's 2002 landslide made him prime minister for four months while Erdoğan was still barred from office; once that ban lifted in 2003, Gül stepped aside to serve as foreign minister and deputy PM. His 2007 presidential bid triggered mass prote…
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It is not possible to cover over a thing like this, whatever is necessary will be done ... It is routine for jet fighters to sometimes fly in and out over (national) borders ...
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