Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan , 1954-, Turkish politician. He was educated at Marmara Univ., where he met Necmettin Erbakan, who went on to head the Islamist Welfare party and serve (1996-7) as prime minister. Active in the Welfare party by the mid-1980s, Erdoğan was elected mayor of Istanbul in 1994. In 1998 he was convicted of inciting religious for reading a poem with martial Islamic images, he served four months in prison. In 2001, Erdoğan and others found the Justice and Development party as the successor to the banned (1998) Welfare party. In the 2002 elections the new party won an overwhelming majority in parliament, but Erdoğan was banned from running because of his 1998 conviction. After the constitution was amended, Erdoğan was elected (2003) and became prime minister. In 2007 the Justice and Development party again won control of parliament. Erdoğan has moved from the strongly Islamist positions he once espoused to more mainstream conservative positions, and his government has pursued reforms required for Turkey to enter the European Union .
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Minorities and the League of Nations in interwar Europe.
Magazine article from: Daedalus; 3/22/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...as the Ottoman Empire broke up. In 1919, under the Treaty of Neuilly, the Bulgarian inhabitants of the city and the surrounding...them stopped a few years later. According to the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne, Muslim residents in Greece had to leave...
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Bulgarian Eagles: the Bulgarian Messerschmitt Me 109 fighters in the Second World War.
Magazine article from: Airpower; 9/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...Salonika of 1938 put an end to the limitations on the Bulgarian aviation, imposed after the defeat in WWI by the peace treaty of Neuilly, the Bulgarian government took measures for strengthening the antiaircraft defense of the country. About 140 of...
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The eastern question unresolved: Europe, the US, and the western Balkans
Magazine article from: International Journal; 12/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...by the First World War and its aftermath. The treaties of St. Germain and Neuilly (1919), Trianon (1920), and Svres and Lausanne...to either the Habsburg or Ottoman empires. The treaties merely confirmed the existence of a new, multiethnic...
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The Balkan Pact and its immediate implications for the Balkan states, 1930-34.
Magazine article from: Middle Eastern Studies; 1/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...National Pact' of 1920 set the Turks against the 1920 Treaty of Sevres, which had transferred Western Thrace and...Bulgaria. The Bulgarian government signed away, in the Neuilly Treaty of 1919, the Struma valley, Tsaribrod and Stromitsa...
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Transfer: Not a Solution
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 11/29/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Turkey agreed to exchange their minority populations in the Treaties of San Stephano (1878), Constantinople (1913) and Neuilly (1919). However, the major exchange of population (transfer...could be set between the longtime enemies. Endorsed by the Treaty of Lausanne (1922) and drawn up by the League of ...
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[G] Business Insurance directory of reinsurance brokers.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Business Insurance; 11/5/2001; 700+ words
; ...500,000 $20,200,000 Treaty 100% 100% Gross revenues...066,000 $63,900,000 Treaty 60% 65% Facultative 40...www.ajg.co.uk 2000 1999 Treaty 74% 77% Facultative 26...Reassurance 2-8 Rue Ancelle, Neuilly Sur Seine, 92200 France...
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Regardless outcome, decisions are made: French PM
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 5/30/2005; 467 words
; ...on the European constitution treaty will be, decisions were...authorising the ratification of the treaty establishing a constitution...and the Greens support the treaty, while far-left and far...and his wife Cecilia voted at Neuilly-sur-Seine in West Paris...
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EUROPE NEWS AT 1800GMT
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 4/22/2008; 700+ words
; ...meet Kosovo officials. PORTUGAL-EU TREATY LISBON, Portugal _ Parliament is scheduled...in favor of ratifying the EU's Lisbon Treaty, which is backed by an overwhelming majority...AP Photos. FRANCE-IMMIGRANT STRIKE NEUILLY-SUR-SEINE, France _ For years, cook...
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Jean Lecanuet, French Senator, Dies at 72
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 2/23/1993; 700+ words
; ...political force, died of cancer Feb. 22 at his home in suburban Neuilly. He served as justice minister in the government of Premier...France out of the military structure of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Mr. Lecanuet also strongly favored...
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Sarkozy emerging as leading figure.(OPINIONS)
Newspaper article from: Guelph Mercury (Guelph, Ontario); 10/23/2008; 700+ words
; ...good faith bargaining in the final hours of the crucial Lisbon Treaty to unify Europe last year, where he and Merkel achieved a...attention in France. As mayor of the tony Paris suburb of Neuilly in 1993, Sarkozy faced a hostage situation where a man calling...
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Treaty of Neuilly
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Treaty of Neuilly , 1919, peace treaty concluded between the Allies and Bulgaria after World War I. It was signed at Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. Bulgaria ceded part of W Thrace to Greece...
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Neuilly, Treaty of
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History
Neuilly, Treaty of (27 Nov. 1919) The peace treaty between the Allied powers and Bulgaria after World War I, negotiated at the Paris Peace Conference and signed at Neuilly Castle in Paris. Bulgaria had to cede the rich wheat-growing...
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Versailles, Treaty of (1920)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
...January 1919, resulted in five treaties. The Treaty of Versailles, signed on...peace with Germany. The treaties of S è vres, Neuilly, St. Germain, and Trianon...Germany after World War I, the Treaty of Versailles established...
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Versailles Peace Settlement
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
...collection of peace treaties between the Central...World War I. The main treaty was that of Versailles...again accepted. The treaty of Neuilly (November 1919) was...never paid. These four treaties were ratified in Paris during 1920. A fifth treaty, that of Sè...
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Thrace
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...share of Thrace to Greece by the Treaty of Neuilly (1919), thus losing its only outlet to the Aegean. By the Treaty of Sèvres (1920) Greece...Straits and Constantinople; the treaty, however, was superseded by the...
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