Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Presidential Campaign, 2014

Milletin Adamı Erdoğan
Campaign	Turkish presidential election, 2014
Candidate	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Prime Minister of Turkey (2003–14)
Affiliation	Justice and Development Party
Status	Won election August 10, 2014
Receipts	US$25M
Slogan	Milletin Adamı Erdoğan (People's Man Erdoğan)
Chant	Türkiye'nin Gücüne Güç Kat!
Website
http://www.rte.com.tr

The Justice and Development Party Vice President announced that their candidate for Turkish presidential election, 2014 was going to be the Prime Minister and the party leader, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Erdoğan accepted the nomination and ran a 40-day campaign which ended in victory. Erdoğan was elected the 12th President of Turkey and was sworn in on August 28, 2014.

Turkish and international media speculated that Recep Tayyip Erdoğan would almost certainly be the AK Party's candidate for the Presidency and on July 1, 2014, at a Justice and Development Party convention, The Party's Vice President Mehmet Ali Şahin announced that they decided to nominate the Turkish Prime Minister and party leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in the upcoming Turkish Presidential Elections.

After the candidacy was announced, Erdoğan made a speech where the 'Erdoğan Logo' was used for the first time. The logo was criticized because it was beared a striking resemblance to the logo that U.S. senator Barack Obama used in his 2008 Presidential Campaign.

A tweet from the finance minister, Mehmet Şimşek, which claimed that the logo has Arabic calligraphy of the Prophet Muhammad's name also sparked debate over the use of religion in the political campaign.

On June 17, 2014, Republican People's Party Leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu and Nationalist Movement Party Leader Devlet Bahçeli announced that they decided to nominate the Secretary-General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu. And on June 30, Peoples' Democratic Party officially nominated their co-leader, Selahattin Demirtaş.

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