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Top left: İsmet İnönü was Turkey's first prime minister and the longest serving prime minister. Top right: Süleyman Demirel was the prime minister who formed the most governments in Turkey. Bottom left: Tansu Çiller was Turkey's first and only female Prime Minister. Bottom right: Binali Yıldırım was Turkey's last prime minister.
The first suicide attack in the country was carried out by the PKK in Tunceli on 30 June 1996. The attack targeting military personnel resulted in the death of 8 military personnel. On 25 October 1996, a civilian died in Adana for the first time in the second suicide attack carried out by the PKK that targeted the police.
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan [b] (born 26 February 1954) is a Turkish politician who is the 12th and current president of Turkey since 2014. He previously served as the 25th prime minister from 2003 to 2014 as part of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), which he co-founded in 2001.
The prime minister of Turkey, officially the prime minister of the Republic of Turkey (Turkish: Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Başbakanı), was the head of government of the Republic of Turkey from 1920 to 2018, who led a political coalition in the Turkish Parliament and presided over the cabinet. Throughout the political history of Turkey, functions ...
But in 1978, Ecevit once again took power with the help of some deputies who had moved from one party to another, until 1979, when Demirel once again became prime minister. Unprecedented political violence erupted in Turkey in the late 1970s. The overall death toll of the 1970s is estimated at 5,000, with nearly ten assassinations per day. [12]
On the day of the blasts, the initial death toll was reported as 86, along with 186 wounded. [32] [37] [38] Next day, the total number of deaths was announced as 97. [39] [40] [41] According to the prime minister's statement on 14 October, 99 people were killed in total. [42]
On 20 August 2016, a suicide bomber targeted a wedding party in Gaziantep, Turkey, at 10:50pm local time. [6] More than 200 people were present at the party. The attack targeted a Kurdish family who had fled the Kurdish town of Siirt due to Turkish-PKK violence, [7] and occurred during the traditional henna night party according to witnesses. [8]
The secretary-general is appalled by the vicious suicide bomb attack targeting government offices and ministries in Mogadishu today." [11] Turkey – Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan called Ahmed and offered to bring the wounded from the bombing to Turkey for medical treatment. [14]