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| 1954 | Birth |  |
| Birth of Recep Tayyip Erdogan |
| 1998 | Trial | |
| Convicted of inciting religious hatred |
| 2001 | Justice and Development Party | |
| 14th Aug The Justice and Development Party emerges from the remnants of former Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan's Welfare Party, which was forcibly dismantled four years after Erbakan's 1997 resignation as a result of the 1997 Army coup d'‚tat |
| 2003 | Aid to Iraq | |
| 21st April UN trucks filled with lentils & sugar enter nth Iraq from Turkey |
| 2003 | Constitution | |
| People with convictions can stand for political off |
| 20th April Says he would like the parliamentary system to be replaced by a presidential system |
| 23rd April Celebrations all over Turkey mark the 83rd anniversary of the foundation of Parliament |
| 2003 | Demonstrations | |
| 23rd April 3,000 Greek & Turkish Cypriots cross the internal divide for the 1st time in 30 yrs |
| 2003 | Diplomacy | |
| 1st April Colin Powell leads a "fact-finding" mission for co-operation in a war with Iraq |
| 5th April Turkey expels 3 Iraqi diplomats |
| 6th April Kharrazi meets Turkish officials to discuss the war & the Kurdish enclave in Iraq |
| 11th April Ankara Schwimmer says Turkey's reform plans should be sufficient for EU membership |
| 18th April Erdogan says Turkey is the best country to rebuild Iraq |
| 22nd April The French Foreign Miniser praises Turkey's moderation & restraint during the war |
| 22nd April The French Foreign Miniser states the benefits of allowing Turkey into the EU |
| 30th April The Greek-Cypriot government will lift it's trade embaro on the Turkish-Cypriots |
| 2003 | Economy | |
| Feb The IMF agrees a $18 billion loan package |
| 18th April The IMF releases $701 million in loans to Turkey |
| 2003 | European Union | |
| 11th April Ankara Schwimmer says Turkey's reform plans should be sufficient for EU membership |
| 22nd April The French Foreign Miniser states the benefits of allowing Turkey into the EU |
| 2003 | Prime Minister | |
| 14th Mar Appointed Prime Minister of Turkey |
| 2003 | Resignation | |
| Mar Gul resigns to allow Erdogan to become Prime Minister |
| 2003 | Rule of Cyprus | |
| 9th April The Turkish & Greek Prime Minister meet but reject each other's proposals |
| 30th April The Greek-Cypriot government will lift it's trade embaro on the Turkish-Cypriots |
| 2003 | Siege of Kirkuk | |
| 7th April Kikuk Tells the US forces that the Kurds will not claim the oil rich city of Kirkuk |
| 11th April Kirkuk Observers are sent into Iraq to review Turkey's intervention if Kurds stay in Kirkuk |
| 24th April Kirkuk US forces catch a Turkish special team entering Krkuk |
| 2003 | Siege of Mosul | |
| 7th April Mosul Tells the US forces that the Kurds will not claim the oil rich city of Mosul |
| 2004 | Economy | |
| The AKP has undertaken significant structural reforms and its policy achievements have seen rapid growth and an end to Turkey's three decade long period of hyperinflation-inflation had fallen to 8.8% by June 2004 |
| 2004 | Election | |
| In the local elections of 2004, the AKP wins an unprecedented 42% of the valid votes |
| 2005 | European Union | |
| the AKP is admitted as an observer member in the European People's Party (EPP), the conservative party of the EU |
| 2007 | Election | |
| 22nd July Overall, the AKP secures a plurality of votes in 68 of Turkey's 81 provinces, with its strongest vote of 71% coming from Bing”l |
| 22nd July The AKP achieves a landslide victory in the rescheduled July 22 2007 elections with 46.6% of the vote, translating into control of 341 of the 550 available parliamentary seats |
