While serving as a mayor for the Welfare Party, he was arrested for reading a Ziya Gokalppoem in 1997 in Siirt.
This man told Shimon Peres that "when it comes to killing, you know well how to kill" in a 2009panel discussion on Gaza. He reportedly survived coup attempts drawn out in the Sledgehammerplan. While serving as a mayor for the Welfare Party, he was arrested for reading a Ziya Gokalppoem in 1997 in Siirt. A 2002 constitutional amendment allowed this head of the Justice and (*)Development Party to become Prime Minister. He's not French, but this man lifted a ban on wearingheadscarves at universities, causing tension with the secular "deep state" controlled by his country'smilitary. In 2004, he tried to resolve the conflict on Cyprus, and he's accused the EU of having ananti-Muslim bias. For 10 points, name this Prime Minister of Turkey.
This man told Shimon Peres that "when it comes to killing, you know well how to kill" in a 2009panel discussion on Gaza.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan [ER-do-WAN, but be extremely lenient on pronunciation]