| Çiçek, Cemil
Minister of Justice. [60b]
Çiller, Tansu
Turkey’s first woman Prime Minister 1993-96. Was Chairman of DYP (True Path Party).
Derviş Kemal
Formerly a Turkish Vice President of the World Bank. Appointed after the February 2001 crisis as the State Minister responsible for the economy; resigned August 2002.
Ecevit, Bülent
Former leader of DSP (Democratic Left Party), and Prime Minister 1999-2002. Was Prime Minister in 1974 (when Turkey invaded Cyprus, in order, in its perception, to protect the Turkish Cypriot minority), in 1977, and in 1978-79.
Erdoğan, Recep Tayyip
Prime Minister from March 2003 to present. Born in 1954, he was in 1994-1998 the popular and charismatic Islamist (Virtue/Fazilet) mayor of Istanbul. He served four months in prison in 1999 for reciting a poem with an Islamic message (and thereby “inciting religious hatred). Leader of the Islamist-orientated AK Partisi (Justice and Development Party), which he led to victory in the November 2002 general election, although he was ineligible to stand for Parliament because of his criminal conviction. The law was changed, he was elected in a by-election, and on 14 March 2003 he was appointed Prime Minister. [66c]
Gül Abdullah
Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister. Prime Minister from November 2002 to March 2003. [60b] [63b]
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