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Recep Tayyip Erdoğan [b] (born 26 February 1954) is a Turkish politician who is the 12th and current president of Turkey since 2014. He previously served as the 25th prime minister from 2003 to 2014 as part of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), which he co-founded in 2001. He also served as mayor of Istanbul from 1994 to 1998.
The president of Turkey is referred to as Cumhurbaşkanı ("Republic leader"), and previously archaically as Cumhurreisi or Reis-i Cumhur, also meaning "head of the republic/people". [8] [9] Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is the 12th and current president of Turkey, who has held the office since 28 August 2014.
14th president of the Constitutional Court of Turkey: 11 Abdullah Gül (born 1950) 2007: 28 August 2007: 28 August 2014 7 years AK Party: 40th minister of foreign affairs: 12 Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (born 1954) 2014: 28 August 2014: 9 July 2018 3 years, 315 days AK Party: 25th prime minister of Turkey Presidential system (2018–present) 12 Recep ...
Turkey's political system is based on a separation of powers. Executive power is exercised by the Council of Ministers, which is appointed and headed by the President, who serves as country's head of state and head of government. Legislative power is vested in the Grand National Assembly. The judiciary is independent of the executive and the ...
Tenure / Current length President: Recep Tayyip Erdoğan: 28 August 2014 (10 years ago) () Vice President of Turkey: Cevdet Yılmaz: 4 June 2023 (20 months ago) () 30th Speaker of the Grand National Assembly: Numan Kurtulmuş: 27 June 2023 (20 months ago) () President of the Constitutional Court: Zühtü Arslan: 10 February 2015
In September 2022, President Erdoğan announced that his country aims to become a member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. [134] In September 2023, President Erdoğan announced that the European Union was well into a rupture in its relations with Turkey and that they would part ways during Turkey's European Union membership process. [135]
Mehmet Ali Talat - Politician, President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus; Zeki Velidi Togan - Politician, Historian; Emel Etem Toshkova - Bulgarian politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Bulgaria (current) Ziya Gökalp - Politician, Poet; Fatin Rüştü Zorlu - Politician, Diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey
The Cabinet of Turkey (Turkish: Türkiye Kabinesi) or Presidential Cabinet (Turkish: Cumhurbaşkanlığı Kabinesi) is the body that advises the President of Turkey on executive affairs. It is composed of the President, Vice President and the heads of the ministries. After the Council of Ministers was abolished with 2017 constitutional ...