sentences:  Gönül first entered Parliament in the 1999 general election as an MP for Kocaeli from the Islamist Virtue Party (FP).He joined the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in 2011 when the FP was shut down and was re-elected as an AKP MP from Kocaeli in the 2002 general election.He became Minister of National Defence in the government of Abdullah Gül and continued in his position when Recep Tayyip Erdoğan took over as Prime Minister in March 2003.