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Abdullah Gül

His Excellency
Abdullah Gül
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11th President of Turkey
In office
28 August 2007 – 28 August 2014
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Preceded by Ahmet Necdet Sezer
Succeeded by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
24th Prime Minister of Turkey
In office
18 November 2002 – 14 March 2003
President Ahmet Necdet Sezer
Deputy Abdüllatif Şener
Mehmet Ali Şahin
Ertuğrul Yalçınbayır
Preceded by Bülent Ecevit
Succeeded by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey
In office
28 March 2003 – 28 August 2007
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Served with Abdüllatif Şener
Mehmet Ali Şahin
Preceded by Ertuğrul Yalçınbayır
Succeeded by Cemil Çiçek
40th Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office
14 March 2003 – 28 August 2007
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Preceded by Yaşar Yakış
Succeeded by Ali Babacan
Minister of State
In office
28 June 1996 – 30 June 1997
Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan
Member of the Grand National Assembly
In office
20 October 1991 – 28 October 2007
Constituency Kayseri (1991, 1995, 1999, 2002, 2007)
Personal details
Born (1949-10-29) 29 October 1949 (age 67)
Kayseri, Turkey
Political party Welfare Party (Before 1997)
Virtue Party (1997–2001)
Justice and Development Party (2001–2007)
Independent (2007–present)
Spouse(s) Hayrünnisa Özyurt (1980–present)
Children Ahmet Münir
Kübra
Mehmet Emre
Alma mater Istanbul University
University of Exeter
Religion Sunni Islam
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Website Official website

Abdullah Gül,Listeni/ɡl/ (Turkish pronunciation: [abduɫˈɫɑh ˈɟyl]; born 29 October 1949) is a Turkish politician who served as the 11th President of Turkey, in office from 2007 to 2014. He previously served for four months as Prime Minister from 2002 to 2003, and concurrently served as both Deputy Prime Minister and as Foreign Minister between 2003 and 2007. He is currently a member of the Advisory Panel for the President of the Islamic Development Bank.

Advocating staunch Islamist political views during his university years, Gül became a Member of Parliament for Kayseri in 1991 and was re-elected in 1995, 1999, 2002 and 2007. Initially a member of the Islamist Welfare Party, Gül joined the Virtue Party in 1998 after the latter was banned for anti-secular activities. When the party split into hardline Islamist and modernist factions in 2000, Gül joined fellow party member Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in advocating the need for reform and moderation. He ran against serving leader Recai Kutan for the Virtue Party leadership on behalf of Erdoğan, who was banned from holding political office at the time. As the candidate for the modernist camp, he came second with 521 votes while Kutan won 633. He co-founded the moderate Justice and Development Party (AKP) with Erdoğan in 2001 after the Virtue Party was shut down in the same year, while hardline conservative members founded the Felicity Party instead.


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