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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.
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.
1st prime minister of Turkey: 1939: 1943: 1946: 3 Celâl Bayar (1883–1986) 1950: 27 May 1950: 27 May 1960 [a] 10 years DP: 3rd prime minister of Turkey 1954: 1957 — National Unity Committee Milli Birlik Komitesi Chairman: General Cemal Gürsel (1895–1966) — 27 May 1960: 10 October 1961 1 year, 136 days Military: 10th commander of the ...
Voters in Turkey returned to the polls Sunday to decide whether the country’s longtime leader stretches his increasingly authoritarian rule into a third decade, or is unseated by a challenger ...
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Edrogan and Egypt’s leader united their efforts Wednesday in Cairo, calling for a halt to Israel’s looming offensive on a southern Gaza city in its war ...
In March 2018, President Erdoğan criticized the Kosovan Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj for dismissing his interior minister and Intelligence Chief for failing to inform him of an unauthorized and illegal secret operation conducted by the National Intelligence Organization of Turkey on Kosovo's territory that led to the arrest of six people ...
Turkey will hold a presidential runoff vote May 28 after neither leading candidate was able to win an outright majority in Sunday's election.
The powers and responsibilities vested in the President of Turkey are primarily delineated by the Constitution of Turkey.Enacted in 1982 following a period of military rule, and heavily amended following a 2017 referendum which replaced the parliamentary system with a presidential one, the constitution sets forth the authority of the president within the framework of the Turkish Republic ...