democracy.
Since its foundation as a republic in 1923, Turkey has developed a secularism.
The President of the Republic is the head of state and is elected for a five year term by direct
elections. The Executive power is exercised by the Prime Minister and the Council of Ministers
which make up the government, while the legislative power is vested in the unicameral
parliament, the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. The judiciary is independent of the
executive and the legislature, and the Constitutional Court is charged with ruling on the
conformity of laws and decrees with the constitution.
The prime minister is elected by the parliament through a vote of confidence in the government
and is most often the head of the party having the most seats in parliament. The current prime
minister is the former mayor of İstanbul, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Recep Tayyip Erdogan is the
leader of a popular and largest political party in Turkey called the AKP. The AKP portrays itself
as a pro-Western party in the Turkish political spectrum that advocates a conservative social
agenda and a liberal market economy that includes Turkish membership in the European
Union.
Someone very important that started this republic in Turkey was Mustafa Kemal Pasha, or
Ataturk. He was a military commander who had distinguished himself during the Battle of
Gallipoli, the Turkish War of Independence was waged with the aim of revoking the terms of
the Treaty of Sèvres.
During our trip we had a chance to go into the Musuem of Ataturk where
there were images and writings about this own war. There was a memorial where people would
leave flowers on his grave. This man was a hero the Turkish people and there was pictures of
him all over Turkey even tattooed on guys arms. On our flight from Antalya to Istanbul we saw
this man who tattooed this huge image of Ataturk on his arm. This man was like the George
Washington or Martin Luther King of Turkey.
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