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Ahmet Necdet Sezer

Ahmet Necdet Sezer (born September 13, 1941) is the president of Turkey. He is the first president in recent years neither to have been a military leader or a politician, but had previously been the president of the Constitutional Court of Turkey after a long career as lawyer and judge.

He was sworn in as President of the Republic on May 16, 2000. He is a strong secularist, and has sometimes been at odds with his Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. He supports Turkey's attempts to gain membership in the European Union. He has criticized the Turkish constitution as insufficiently democratic.

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