The former Real Madrid player, 37 years old, makes the leap into politics and joins Erdogan's 'A team' after being elected at the AKP's VIII Congress. Mesut Özil enters politics. The former player of ...

Former Germany international Mesut Özil has become a board member of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's AKP party, the Anadolu news agency reported on Sunday. According to the report, the 2014 ...

were criticised in Germany after being pictured meeting with Erdogan. "My job is a football player and not a politician, and our meeting was not an endorsement of any policies," Ozil said at the time.