Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Turkish politician who led the AKP, was Prime Minister from 2003 to 2014 and became President of Turkey in 2014.
Biography
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is a Turkish politician who has led Turkey since 2003, first as prime minister and since 2014 as president. He was mayor of Istanbul in the 1990s and was briefly jailed for reciting a religious poem.
He co-founded the Justice and Development Party (AKP), which won the 2002 election. His early years brought economic growth and reforms toward EU membership, while later years saw increasing control over the courts, media and military.
After a failed coup attempt in 2016 he purged state institutions, and a 2017 referendum created an executive presidency. He was re-elected in 2018 and 2023.
Offices held
Mar 14, 2003 – Aug 28, 2014
Preceded by
Abdullah Gül Succeeded by
Ahmet Davutoğlu
Abdullah Gül Succeeded by
Ahmet Davutoğlu
Affiliations
Party membership
- Jan 1, 1983 – Jan 1, 1997 Welfare Party
- Jan 1, 1997 – Jan 1, 1998 Virtue Party
- from Aug 14, 2001 Justice and Development Party
Timeline
1955
1960
1965
1970
1975
1980
1985
1990
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
2025
