Muş (pronounced [muʃ]; Armenian: Մուշ, Kurdish: Mûs) is the provincial capital of Muş Province in Turkey. Population of the municipality of Muş: 72,774 (2009 estimates) The mayor is Necmettin Dede (AKP).

The town was found in Araratian Kingdom (aka Urartu).^{[citation needed]} During the middle ages it was the chief town of Armenia's Taron province. Today the city is populated by Turkish, Kurdish. There are a few ancient remnants including a few citadels and the Aslanhane Caravanserai.^{[citation needed]}

It is considered one of the early centers of the Armenian civilization and housed ancient Armenian churches until the 1960s.^{[citation needed]}

There are mosques from the Seljuk period, like the Alaeddin Pasa, Haci Seref, and Ulu Mosques.^{[citation needed]}

Muş has been ruled by Median, Persian, Armenian, Byzantine, Arabian, Seljuk and Ottoman empires.^{[citation needed]}

Muş has a continental climate (Köppen climate classification Dsa) with freezing, snowy winters and hot and very dry summers.

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (IPA: [ɾeˈd͡ʒep tajˈjip ˈæɾdoan]; born 26 February 1954) has been Prime Minister of Turkey since 2003 and is chairman of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party), which holds a majority of the seats in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. Erdoğan served as Mayor of Istanbul from 1994 to 1998. He graduated in 1981 from Marmara University's Faculty of Economics and Commercial Sciences. Erdoğan was also a semi-professional footballer from 1969 to 1982.

Erdoğan was elected Mayor of Istanbul in the local elections of 27 March 1994. He was banned from office and sentenced to a prison term for reciting a poem during a public address in the province of Siirt on 12 December 1997. The poem was allegedly quoted from a book published by a state enterprise and one that had been recommended to teachers by the Ministry of Education. After six months in prison, Erdoğan established the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) on August 14, 2001. From its first year, the AK Party became the largest publicly-supported political movement in Turkey. In the general election of 2002 the AK Party won nearly two-thirds of the seats in parliament, forming the first single-party government for 9 years.