Text 6 Recep Tayyip Erdoğan,(bornFebruary 26, 1954,Rize, Turkey), Turkish politician, who served asprime minister(2003–14) andpresident(2014– ) ofTurkey. Inhigh schoolErdoğan became known as a fiery orator in the cause of politicalIslam. He later played on a professionalfootball(soccer) team and attended Marmara University. During this time, he metNecmettin Erbakan, a veteran Islamist politician, and Erdoğan became active in parties led by Erbakan, despite a ban in Turkey on religiously based political parties. In 1994, Erdoğan was elected as the mayor ofIstanbulon the ticket of theWelfare Party. The election of the first-ever Islamist to the mayoralty shook the secularist establishment, but Erdoğan proved to be a competent and canny manager. He yielded to protests against the building of a mosque in the city’s central square but banned the sale of alcoholic beverages in city-owned cafés. In 1998, he was convicted for inciting religious hatred after reciting a poem that compared mosques to barracks, minarets to bayonets, and the faithful to an army. Sentenced to 10 months in prison, Erdoğan resigned asmayor. After serving four months of his sentence, Erdoğan was released from prison in 1999, and he re-entered politics. When Erbakan’s Virtue Party was banned in 2001, Erdoğan broke with Erbakan and helped form theJustice and Development Party(Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi; AKP). His party won the parliamentary elections in 2002, but Erdoğan was legally barred from serving in parliament or as prime minister because of his 1998conviction. Aconstitutionalamendmentin December 2002, however, effectively removed Erdoğan’s disqualification. On March 9, 2003, he won a by-election and days later was asked by President Ahmet Necdet Sezer to form a new government. Erdoğan took office on May 14, 2003. (Source: britannica.com ) What’s the writer’s opinion about Erdogan?

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Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, (born February 26, 1954, Rize, Turkey), Turkish politician, who served as prime minister (2003–14) and president (2014– ) of Turkey.

In high school Erdoğan became known as a fiery orator in the cause of political Islam. He later played on a professional football (soccer) team and attended Marmara University. During this time, he met Necmettin Erbakan, a veteran Islamist politician, and Erdoğan became active in parties led by Erbakan, despite a ban in Turkey on religiously based political parties. In 1994, Erdoğan was elected as the mayor of Istanbul on the ticket of the Welfare Party. The election of the first-ever Islamist to the mayoralty shook the secularist establishment, but Erdoğan proved to be a competent and canny manager. He yielded to protests against the building of a mosque in the city’s central square but banned the sale of alcoholic beverages in city-owned cafés. In 1998, he was convicted for inciting religious hatred after reciting a poem that compared mosques to barracks, minarets to bayonets, and the faithful to an army. Sentenced to 10 months in prison, Erdoğan resigned as mayor.

After serving four months of his sentence, Erdoğan was released from prison in 1999, and he re-entered politics. When Erbakan’s Virtue Party was banned in 2001, Erdoğan broke with Erbakan and helped form the Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi; AKP). His party won the parliamentary elections in 2002, but Erdoğan was legally barred from serving in parliament or as prime minister because of his 1998 conviction. A constitutional amendment in December 2002, however, effectively removed Erdoğan’s disqualification. On March 9, 2003, he won a by-election and days later was asked by President Ahmet Necdet Sezer to form a new government. Erdoğan took office on May 14, 2003.

(Source: britannica.com)

What’s the writer’s opinion about Erdogan?

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