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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.
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was born in Kasımpaşa, a poor neighborhood of Istanbul.His family was originally from Rize, [1] a conservative town on the eastern coast of the Black Sea, and returned there when Erdoğan was still an infant, coming back to Istanbul again when he was 13. [2]
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has been chairman of the AK Party since the 2017 Party Congress. [35] The AK Party is the largest party in the Grand National Assembly , the Turkish national legislature, with 268 out of 600 seats, having won 35.6% of votes in the 2023 Turkish parliamentary election .
Erdoğanism (Turkish: Erdoğancılık) is a neologism that refers to the political ideals and agenda of Turkish president and former prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, [1] who became prime minister in 2003 and served until his election to the Presidency in 2014.
Erdogan eventually became the prime minister of Turkey in 2002, made various reforms such as in the education and media, weakening of the military control over the government, civilian control over the military, lifting bans on religious dresses (including headscarves), and ending discrimination against students from private religious high ...
ANKARA (Reuters) - Paving the way for Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan to run for a fourth term in office is "on our agenda", the spokesman for the president's ruling party said on Monday, adding ...
With the 2007 constitutional amendment referendum, it was decided that the president would be elected by the people, and in the first elections held on 10 August 2014 after this change, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was elected president by the people. The president, who is the head of state, is also the head of government after the 2017 constitutional ...
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, a lieutenant of Erbakan, founded the Justice and Development Party, which has governed Turkey since 2002. It has been called one of "the leading Turkish diaspora organizations in Europe" [2] and also described as the largest Islamic organization operating in the West. [3]