On 3 October 2005 negotiations began for Turkey's accession to the European Union. [338][339], Erdoğan's plan is "to reconstitute Turkey as a presidential system. One of the points of the agreement was the creation of a joint commission on the issue.
He said, “This song won’t finish here” to the crowd. [319], Relations with Venezuela were strengthened with recent developments and high level mutual visits.
Turkey responded saying that Armenian court's ruling on the protocols is not acceptable, resulting in a suspension of the rectification process by the Turkish side. [413], Erdoğan has produced many aphorisms and catch-phrases known as Erdoğanisms. I, however, won 52%". In March 2015, a judge ordered Erdoğan to pay 10,000 liras. Its introduction coincided with the period of sustained economic growth, allowing the Turkish government to put greater investments into the healthcare system. [129], In 2005, the parliament granted amnesty to students expelled from universities before 2003. Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the most controversial politician in modern Turkish history was born in Istanbul’s neglected Kasımpasa district to a working-class family from Rize, a city at the Black Sea coast, on February 26, 1954. A muezzin summoned the faithful to prayers. 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[53], He was pragmatic in office, tackling many chronic problems in Istanbul including water shortage, pollution and traffic chaos. Mr Erdogan, who resides in a 1,100-room palace, surrounds himself with courtiers and appoints family members to senior positions, but resents being compared to a sultan, wants to conquer Istanbul and the Hagia Sophia all over again. The domes our helmets. [301][302] On 10 April, Erdoğan rebuked a Russian demand to return Afrin to Syrian government control. [246], On 29 April 2017 Erdoğan's administration began an internal Internet block of all of the Wikipedia online encyclopedia site via Turkey's domestic Internet filtering system. It was consist of seven poems from Islamist poets, the first one was “A letter from the dungeon”, recited all by Erdogan quite successfully. [393] However, the Turkish president's office said that Erdoğan was not advocating a Hitler-style government when he called for a state system with a strong executive, and added that the Turkish president had declared the "Holocaust, anti-semitism and Islamophobia" as crimes against humanity and that it was out of the question for him to cite Hitler's Germany as a good example. According to his official CV, he received his graduation diploma from Marmara University’s Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences in 1981.
[307] Erdoğan has stated that Turkey might consider joining the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation instead of the European Union. [409], In November 2016, the Turkish government[235] blocked access to social media in all of Turkey[410] as well as sought to completely block Internet access for the citizens in the southeast of the country. Armenians attach great historical and cultural importance to Mt. [344] As relations with Europe soured over in the aftermath of the attempted coup, Erdoğan developed alternative relationships with Russia,[345][346] Saudi Arabia[347] and a "strategic partnership" with Pakistan,[348][349] with plans to cultivate relations through free trade agreements and deepening military relations for mutual co-operation with Turkey's regional allies.