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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.
During the first years of his premiership in which Turkey reformed its law to comply with EU-accession talks, Erdogan received favorable ratings in Europe, calling the reforms a "silent revolution". [1] The refugee crisis originating from the Syrian civil war lowered the ratings of Erdogan in Europe, while maintaining high support in the Arab ...
Erdogan, who has led Turkey as prime minister or president for 20 years, prevailed in a runoff race last weekend despite the country's ongoing economic crisis and his government's criticized ...
Erdoğanism (Turkish: Erdoğancılık) 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.
President Tayyip Erdogan's government is seeking ways to curb the influence of Turkey's Constitutional Court, prompted by its rulings to free a jailed opposition parliamentarian, according to a ...
The AK Party was established by a wide range of politicians of various political parties and a number of new politicians in 2001. The core of the party was formed from the reformist faction of the Islamist Virtue Party, including people such as Abdullah Gül and Bülent Arınç, while a second founding group consisted of members of the social conservative Motherland Party who had been close to ...
Watch live as the Conservative Party conference 2023 gets underway in Manchester on Sunday 1 October. Britain’s Foreign Minister James Cleverly and Minister for Defence Grant Shapps are expected ...
President Erdogan addressing the guests. In his inauguration speech at the presidential complex, Erdogan said that the current constitution was a product of the 1980 coup and that it needed to be replaced with "a libertarian, civil and inclusive one" that would strengthen democracy.