Abdullah Gül with US National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice during his visit at the White House in July 2003

Abdullah Gül (born 29 October 1950) is a Turkish politician. He is vice-prime minister and foreign minister of Turkey. Abdullah Gül with Condoleezza Rice in July 2003 File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Abdullah Gül with Condoleezza Rice in July 2003 File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Condoleezza Condi Rice (born November 14, 1954), is the second United States Secretary of State in the administration of President George W. Bush. ... The southern side of the White House The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the President of the United States. ... July is the seventh month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, and also: The International Year of Freshwater The European Disability Year Events January January 1 - Luíz Inácio Lula Da Silva becomes the 37th President of Brazil. ... October 29 is the 302nd day of the year (303rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 63 days remaining. ... 1950 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... A prime minister is the leading member of the cabinet of the top level government in a parliamentary system of government of a country, alternatively A prime minister is an official in a presidential system or semi-presidential system whose duty is to execute the directives of the President and... A minister for foreign affairs, or foreign minister, is a cabinet minister that helps to form foreign policy for sovereign nations. ...

Born in Kayseri, Gül studied economics at the University of Istanbul and wrote his dissertation there. During his graduate education, he studied for two years in London and Exeter. He pursued an academic career afterwards and worked at the University of Sakarya, collaborating in the establishment of a department for industrial engineering and teaching management courses. Kayseri is an industrialized city in Turkey that is famous for Mount Erciyes. ... Economics is the social science studying production and consumption through measurable variables. ... The University of Istanbul is one of the oldest universities in Europe (founded in 1453), and the oldest in Turkey. ... This article is about the thesis in dialectics and academia. ... Greater London and the Regions of England. ... A number of other places have taken their names from Exeter The city of Exeter is the county town of Devon, in England, UK. It is located at 50° 43 25 N, 3° 31 39 W. In the 2001 census its population was recorded at 111,066. ... Industrial engineering is the engineering discipline that is concerned mainly with the design, development, implementation, and evaluation of integrated systems of people, knowledge, equipment, energy, and material. ... Management (from Old French ménagement the art of conducting, directing, from Latin manu agere to lead by the hand) characterises the process of leading and directing all or part of an organization, often a business, through the deployment and manipulation of resources (human, financial, material, intellectual or intangible). ...

Between 1983 and 1991, he worked as CEO of the Islamic Development Bank (IDB). In 1991, Gül became a lecturer in international management. Furthermore he was elected a member of the Turkish parliament for "Refah Partisi" (RP, the Islamic "Welfare Party") as the deputy from Kayseri. 1983 is an integer and composite number that represents a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1991 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is the job of having the ultimate executive responsibility or authority within an organization or corporation. ... Islamic Development Bank (also known as IDB), is a multilateral development financing institution. ... The debating chamber or hemicycle of the European Parliament in Brussels. ... Islam (Arabic al-islām الإسلام,  listen) the submission to God is a monotheistic faith and the worlds second-largest religion. ...

In the years 1991 to 1995, Gül was a member of the planning and budget committee of the Turkish parliament. In 1995, he was re-elected and was member of the committee for issues in foreign politics until 2001. 1995 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2001 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In the 54th government from 1996 to 1997, he served as Minister of State and as government spokesman. 1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Reef. ...

Following the outlawing of the RP in 1999, Gül was re-elected to parliament a third time as member of "Fazilet Partisi" (FP, "the Virtue Party" ). 1999 is a common year starting on Friday of the Common Era, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...

On May 14, 2000, he narrowly lost the elections for president of the FP. Despite losing, this was still regarded as a remarkable achievement for Gül. After the outlawing of the FP, Gül took an important position in the direction of the "Yenilikçi Hareket" political movement ("renovation movement"), which merged in August 2001 with the party it co-founded "Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi" (AKP, the "Justice and Development Party"). He was responsible for the judicial and political issues, which was the key element in his election as vice-chairman of the party. May 14 is the 134th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (135th in leap years). ... 2000 is a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2001 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Justice and Development Party (Turkish: Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi or AKP) is a Turkish political party. ...

On November 3, 2002, Gül was again elected to the parliament as the deputy of Kayseri. Two weeks later he was asked to form the 58th government. He took the post of prime minister and formed a government which was to serve as a transitional government. The goal was to make a constitutional amendment, in order to permit Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the chairman of the AKP to become prime minister (as Erdoğan could not be elected to parliament because of his punishment), thanks to a by-election round in the south-eastern Anatolian province of Siirt. On March 14, 2003, Erdoğan took over the post of prime minister from Abdullah Gül and appointed him as his deputy prime minister and foreign minister. November 3 is the 307th day of the year (308th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 58 days remaining. ... 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A prime minister is the leading member of the cabinet of the top level government in a parliamentary system of government of a country, alternatively A prime minister is an official in a presidential system or semi-presidential system whose duty is to execute the directives of the President and... Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (born February 26, 1954) became prime minister of Turkey on March 14, 2003. ... Anatolia ( Greek: ανατολή anatolē or anatolí, rising of the sun or East; compare Orient and Levant, by popular etymology Turkish Anadolu to ana mother and dolu filled), also called by the Latin name of Asia Minor, is a region of Southwest Asia which corresponds today to the Asian portion of... March 14 is the 73rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (74th in Leap years) with 292 days remaining in the year. ... 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, and also: The International Year of Freshwater The European Disability Year Events January January 1 - Luíz Inácio Lula Da Silva becomes the 37th President of Brazil. ...

Gül was perceived to be somewhat out of his depth as Prime Minister, particularly in negotiations with the United States surrounding any Turkish participation in the Iraq war. However, he rapidly found his feet as foreign minister, becoming the key player not only in Turkey's attempts to receive an accession date for the European Union, but also in its attempts to improve relations with Syria and maintain its special relationship with the Turkic speaking countries of Central Asia and the Caucasus. This article deals with the post-invasion period in Iraq and its occupation. ... The Turkic languages are a group of closely related languages that are spoken by a variety of people distributed across a vast area from Eastern Europe to Siberia and Western China. ... Map of Central Asia outlined in orange showing one set of possible borders Central Asia located as a region of the world Central Asia is a vast landlocked region of Asia. ... The Caucasus is a region in West Asia between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea which includes the Caucasus mountains and surrounding lowlands. ...

Abdullah Gül is married and has three children.

External links

• Personal website (http://www.abdullahgul.gen.tr)
• Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (http://www.mfa.gov.tr)

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