AKP hosts dignitaries from all over the world

ANKARA

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Political leaders and representatives from political parties hailing from all over the world, especially the Middle East, participated in the ruling Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) fourth big congress today.

Newly-elected Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, the president of Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Massoud Barzani, Kyrgyzstan President Almazbek Atambaev and Iraqi Parliament Speaker Usame al-Nujaifi are among the high-profile, international guest of the congress. The diplomatic leaders are expected to also have bilateral meetings with Turkish officials in the capital.
 
Foreign participants at the congress are as follows:
 
* Kyrgyzstan President Almazbek Atambaev
 
* Deputy speaker of Kazakhstan Parliament Nurlan Nigmatulin
 
 * Iraqi Parliament Speaker Usame al-Nujaifi
 
* Vice President of Sudan Ali Osman Mohammed Taha
 
* Vice President of Iraq Tariq al-Hashimi
 
* Prime Minister of Northern Cyprus İrsen Küçük
 
* Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Massoud Barzani
 
* Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Rasim Ljajic
 
* Deputy Prime Minister of Bulgaria Tsvetan Tsvetanov
 
* Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq Saleh Muhammed al-Mutlaq
 
* Chief Minister of Punjab province of Pakistan Shahbaz Sharif
 
* Former President of Bosnia and Herzegovina Haris Silajdžić
 
* Former Chancellor of Germany Gerhard Schröder
 
* Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Yousaf Raza Gillani
 
* Former Prime Minister of Iraq Iyad Allawi
 
 * Former Prime Minister of Kurdistan Regional Government
 
* Leader of Ennahda Movement of Tunisia Rashid al-Ghannushi
 
* Khaled Mashaal, the head of the Hamas movement in exile;
 
* Leader of Party of Democratic Action of Bosnia Sulejman Tihić 
 
* Leader of Prosperous Justice Party (PJP) of Indonesia Luthfi Hasan İshaaq
 
* European Parliament Jan Zahradil
 
* Leader of Iraq National Future Gathering Rafi Hiyad al-Issawi 
 
* Secretary General of Iraqi Islamic Party Ayad Samarrai
 
* Leader of Iraq’s Kurdistan Islamic Union Muhammad Faraj 
 
* Secretary General of the International Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP) Chung Eui-Yong
 
* Leader of Republican Turkish Party of Northern Cyprus Özkan Yorgancıoğlu
 
* Leader of Democracy and Confidence Party of Northern Cyprus Başkanı Tahsin Ertuğruloğlu
 
* Leader Freedom and Reform Party of Northern Cyprus Turgay Avcı
 
* Leader of Turkish Democratic Party of Kosovo Mahir Yağcılar
 
* Leader of Justice and Construction Party of Libya Mohammed Hasin Sowan Elmkrish
 
* Leader of Future Movement Lebanon Ahmed Hariri
 
* Leader of Adhaalath Party of Maldives Dr. Mohamed Muizzu
 
* Leader of Wasat Party of Egypt Abou Elela Mady
 
* Leader of Wafd Party of Egypt El-Sayyid el-Badawi
 
* Leader of the Party of Democratic Action of Sandžak
 of Serbia Sulejman Ugljanin
 
* Leader of Daljir Party of Somalia Hassan Moallim Bin Abdullah Al-Yadomi