Reis

A biopic about the former Prime Minister (from 2003 to 2014) and current president of the Republic of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (Reha Beyoğlu). In the center of the movie is Erdoğan's tenure as mayor of the city of Istanbul, which lasted from 1994 to 1998. In flashback you can see his rise from bottom up to top of the power. After all, the future statesman once in Istanbul Waterfront Kasımpaşa grew up in very simple ratios. The film ends in 1999 with a four-month prison term Erdoğan, he had to sit, after he publicly recited a passage from a poem: "Democracy is just the train, on which we ascend until we have arrived the aim.The mosques are our barracks,the domes our helmets,the minarets our bayonets and the believers our soldiers. "