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Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
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Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

Politician · born February 26, 1954

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Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is a Turkish politician who has been the president of Turkey since 2014. He previously served as the 25th prime minister from 2003 to 2014 as part of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), which he co-founded in 2001.

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Milestones, by age

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  1. 49Became Prime Minister of TurkeyMarch 14, 2003
  2. 55Named Nishan-e-PakistanOctober 26, 2009
  3. 60Became President of TurkeyAugust 28, 2014
  4. 66Received the Ig Nobel PrizeSeptember 1, 2020

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