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For the name, see Erdo\u011fan (name).\n\n\n\nRecep Tayyip Erdo\u011fanErdo\u011fan in 202412th President of TurkeyIncumbentAssumed office 28 August 2014Prime MinisterAhmet Davuto\u011fluBinali Y\u0131ld\u0131r\u0131mVice PresidentFuat Oktay(2018\u20132023)Cevdet Y\u0131lmaz(2023\u2013present)Preceded byAbdullah G\u00fcl25th Prime Minister of TurkeyIn office14 March 2003\u00a0\u2013 28 August 2014PresidentAhmet Necdet SezerAbdullah G\u00fclDeputy\nSee list\n Naz\u0131m Ekren\n Ali Babacan\n B\u00fclent Ar\u0131n\u00e7\n Be\u015fir Atalay\n Bekir Bozda\u011f\n Emrullah \u0130\u015fler\nPreceded byAbdullah G\u00fclSucceeded byAhmet Davuto\u011fluLeader of the Justice and Development\u00a0PartyIncumbentAssumed office 21 May 2017Preceded byBinali Y\u0131ld\u0131r\u0131mIn office14 August 2001\u00a0\u2013 27 August 2014Preceded byOffice establishedSucceeded byAhmet Davuto\u011fluMember of the Grand National AssemblyIn office9 March 2003\u00a0\u2013 28 August 2014Constituency\nSiirt (2003 by-election)\nIstanbul (I) (2007, 2011)\nMayor of IstanbulIn office27 March 1994\u00a0\u2013 6 November 1998Preceded byNurettin S\u00f6zenSucceeded byAli M\u00fcfit G\u00fcrtunaChairman of the Organization of\u00a0Turkic\u00a0StatesIn office12 November 2021\u00a0\u2013 11 November 2022Preceded byIlham AliyevSucceeded byShavkat MirziyoyevIn office28 August 2014\u00a0\u2013 11 September 2015Preceded byAbdullah G\u00fclSucceeded byNursultan NazarbayevPersonal detailsBorn26 February 1954 (age\u00a072)Istanbul, TurkeyPartyJustice and Development (2001\u20132014; 2017\u2013present)Other politicalaffiliations\nNational Salvation Party (before 1981)\nWelfare Party (1983\u20131998)\nVirtue Party (1998\u20132001)\nIndependent (2014\u20132017)\nSpouse\n\nEmine Erdo\u011fan[1]\n \u200b\u200b(m.\u00a0)\u200bChildrenAhmetBilalEsraS\u00fcmeyyeRelativesBerat AlbayrakSel\u00e7uk Bayraktar (sons-in-law)EducationMarmara University (BBA)[a]AwardsFull listSignatureWebsiteGovernment website\n\n\nRecep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan[b] (born 26 February 1954) is a Turkish politician who has been the 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. Coming from an Islamist background and promoting socially conservative policies, Erdo\u011fan has been Turkey's de facto leader since 2002. Turkey has experienced democratic backsliding and suppression of dissent under Erdo\u011fan.[5]\n\nErdo\u011fan was born in Beyo\u011flu, Istanbul, and studied at the Aksaray Academy of Economic and Commercial Sciences, before working as a consultant and senior manager in the private sector. Becoming active in local politics, he was elected Welfare Party's Beyo\u011flu district chair in 1984 and Istanbul chair in 1985. Following the 1994 local elections, Erdo\u011fan was elected mayor of Istanbul. In 1998 he was convicted for inciting religious hatred and banned from politics after reciting a poem by Ziya G\u00f6kalp that compared mosques to barracks and the faithful to an army. Erdo\u011fan was released from prison in 1999 and formed the AKP, abandoning openly Islamist policies.\n\nErdo\u011fan led the AKP to a landslide victory in the election for the Grand National Assembly in 2002, and became prime minister after winning a by-election in Siirt in 2003. Erdo\u011fan led the AKP to two more election victories in 2007 and 2011. His tenure consisted of economic recovery from the economic crisis of 2001, the start of EU membership negotiations, and the reduction of military influence on politics. In late 2012, his government began peace negotiations with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) to end the Kurdish\u2013Turkish conflict, negotiations which ended three years later.\n\nIn 2014, Erdo\u011fan became the country's first directly elected president. Erdo\u011fan's presidency has been marked by democratic backsliding and a shift towards authoritarianism. His economic policies have led to high inflation and the depreciation of the Turkish lira. He has intervened in conflicts in Syria and Libya, launched operations against the Islamic State, Syrian Democratic Forces, and Ba'athist Syria, and has made threats against Greece and Israel. He oversaw the transformation of Turkey's parliamentary system into a presidential system, introducing term limits and expanding executive powers, and Turkey's migrant crisis. In May 2022, Erdo\u011fan temporarily blocked Finland and Sweden from joining NATO. Erdo\u011fan responded to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine by closing the Bosphorus to Russian naval reinforcements, brokering a deal between Russia and Ukraine regarding the export of grain, and mediating a prisoner exchange. In 2025, Erdo\u011fan oversaw the arrest of Istanbul mayor Ekrem \u0130mamo\u011flu and his subsequent disqualification from the upcoming 2028 presidential election, for which he was considered the opposition front-runner, leading to ongoing widespread protests.[6]\n\n\n\nEarly life and education\n\n\nRecep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan was born on 26 February 1954 in Kas\u0131mpa\u015fa, Beyo\u011flu to a modest conservative Muslim family.[7][8] Erdo\u011fan's family is originally from Adjara, a region in Georgia.[9] Although Erdo\u011fan was reported to have said in 2003 that he was of Georgian origin and that his origins were in Batumi,[8][10] he later denied this.[8] His parents were Ahmet Erdo\u011fan (1905\u20131988), a coastguard and sea captain,[11][12] and Tenzile Erdo\u011fan (n\u00e9e Mutlu; 1924\u20132011).[13]\n\nWhile Erdo\u011fan attended school in Istanbul, his summer holidays were mostly spent in G\u00fcneysu, Rize, where his family originates from. Throughout his life he often returned to this spiritual home, and in 2015 he opened a vast mosque on a mountaintop near this village.[14] The family returned to Istanbul when Erdo\u011fan was 13 years old.[15]\n\nAs a teenager, Erdo\u011fan's father provided him with a weekly allowance of 2.5 Turkish lira, less than a dollar. With it, Erdo\u011fan bought postcards and resold them on the street. He sold bottles of water to drivers stuck in traffic. Erdo\u011fan also worked as a street vendor selling simit (sesame bread rings), wearing a white gown and selling the simit from a red three-wheel cart with the rolls stacked behind glass.[15] In his youth, Erdo\u011fan played semi-professional football in Camialt\u0131spor FC, a local club.[16][2][17][18] The stadium of the local football club in the district where he grew up, Kas\u0131mpa\u015fa S.K. is named after him.[19][20]\n\nErdo\u011fan is a member of the Community of \u0130skenderpa\u015fa, a Turkish Sufistic community of the Naqshbandi Order.[21][22]\n\nEducation\nErdo\u011fan graduated from Kas\u0131mpa\u015fa Piyale Primary School in 1965, and the Istanbul \u0130mam Hatip High School, a religious vocational high school, in 1973.[23] The same educational path was followed by other co-founders of the AK Party.[24] One quarter of the curriculum of \u0130mam Hatip schools involves study of the Quran, the life of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and the Arabic language. Erdo\u011fan studied the Quran at the \u0130mam Hatip, where his classmates began calling him hoca (\"teacher\" or \"religious official\").\n\nErdo\u011fan attended a meeting of the nationalist student group National Turkish Student Union (Milli T\u00fcrk Talebe Birli\u011fi), who sought to raise a conservative cohort of young people to counter the rising movement of leftists in Turkey. Within the group, Erdo\u011fan was distinguished by his oratorical skills, developing a penchant for public speaking and excelling in front of an audience. He won first place in a poetry-reading competition organized by the Community of Turkish Technical Painters, and began preparing for speeches through reading and research. Erdo\u011fan would later comment on these competitions as \"enhancing our courage to speak in front of the masses\".[25]\n\nErdo\u011fan wanted to pursue advanced studies at the Ankara University Faculty of Political Science, commonly known as M\u00fclkiye, but only students with regular high school diplomas were eligible to apply, thereby excluding Imam Hatip graduates. M\u00fclkiye was known for its political science department, which trained many statesmen and politicians in Turkey. Erdo\u011fan was then admitted to Ey\u00fcp High School, a regular state school. That he eventually received a high school diploma from this school is a subject of debate.[26][27]\n\nAccording to his official biography, Erdo\u011fan subsequently studied business administration at the Aksaray School of Economics and Commercial Sciences (Turkish: Aksaray \u0130ktisat ve Ticaret Y\u00fcksekokulu), now known as Marmara University's Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences.[2] Both the authenticity and status of his degree have been the subject of disputes and controversy over whether the diploma is legitimate and ought to be considered sufficient to make him eligible as a candidate for the presidency.[28]\n\nEarly political career\n\n\nPrime Minister Erdo\u011fan on 18 March 2008, during the \u00c7anakkale Victory and Martyrs' Remembrance Day ceremony\n\nIn 1976, Erdo\u011fan engaged in politics by joining the National Turkish Student Union, an anti-communist action group. In the same year, he became head of the Beyo\u011flu youth branch of the Islamist National Salvation Party (MSP),[29] and was later promoted to chair of the Istanbul youth branch.[23] He held this position until the 1980 military coup which dissolved all major political parties. He went on to be a consultant and senior executive in the private sector in the aftermath of the coup.\n\nThree years later, in 1983, Erdo\u011fan followed most of Necmettin Erbakan's followers into the newly founded Welfare Party (RP). The new party, like its predecessors subscribed to Erbakan's strain of Islamism, the National view. He became the party's Beyo\u011flu district chair in 1984, and head of its Istanbul branch in 1985. Erdo\u011fan entered the parliamentary by-elections of 1986 as a candidate in Istanbul's 6th electoral district, but failed to get elected. Three years later, Erdo\u011fan ran for the district mayoralty of Beyo\u011flu, finishing in second place with 22.8% of the vote.[30]\n\nIn the 1991 general election, the Welfare Party more than doubled its share of the vote in Istanbul compared to four years prior, reaching 16.7%. At first, Erdo\u011fan, who led his party's district list, was thought to have been elected to parliament. However, as a product of the open-list proportional representation system adopted during the previous term, after all votes expressing a candidate preference were tabulated, it was instead Mustafa Ba\u015f who earned the seat allocated to the Welfare Party. A difference of about 4,000 preferential votes separated the two, with Ba\u015f's ~13,000 to Erdo\u011fan's ~9,000.[31]\n\nMayor of Istanbul (1994\u20131998)\nIn the local elections of 1994, Erdo\u011fan ran as a candidate for Mayor of Istanbul. He was a young, dark horse candidate in a crowded field. Over the course of the campaign, he was mocked by the mainstream media and treated as a country bumpkin by his opponents.[32] In an upset, he won with 25.19% of the popular vote, making it the first time a mayor of Istanbul got elected from his political party. His win coincided with a wave of Welfare Party victories nationwide, as they won 28 provincial mayoralties - most out of any party - and numerous metropolitan seats, including the capital, Ankara. He said at the time: \"Democracy is like a train: when we reach our destination, we get off\".[33]\n\nErdo\u011fan governed pragmatically, focusing on bread-and-butter issues. He aimed to tackle the chronic problems plaguing the metropolis, such as water shortage, pollution \u2013 waste collection issues in particular \u2013 and severely congested traffic. He undertook an infrastructure overhaul: expanding and modernizing the water grid with hundreds of kilometres of new water pipes being laid, and constructing more than fifty bridges, viaducts, and stretches of highway to mitigate traffic. State-of-the-art recycling facilities were built and air pollution was reduced through a plan to switch to natural gas. He changed the public buses to environmentally friendly ones. He took precautions to prevent corruption, using measures to ensure that municipal funds were used prudently. He paid back a major portion of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality's two-billion-dollar debt and invested four billion dollars in the city.[34] He also opened up City Hall to the people, gave out his e-mail address and established municipal hot lines.[35]\n\nErdo\u011fan initiated the first roundtable of mayors during the Istanbul conference, which led to a global, organized movement of mayors. A seven-member international jury from the United Nations unanimously awarded Erdo\u011fan the UN-Habitat award.[36]\n\nImprisonment\nIn December 1997 in Siirt, Erdo\u011fan recited a modified version of the \"Soldier's prayer\" poem written by Ziya G\u00f6kalp, a pan-Turkish activist of the early 20th century.[37] This version included an additional stanza in the beginning, its first two verses reading \"The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets / The minarets our bayonets and the faithful our soldiers....\"[15] Under article 312/2 of the Turkish penal code his recitation was regarded by the judge as an incitement to violence and religious or racial hatred.[38][39][37] In his defence, Erdo\u011fan said that the poem was published in state-approved books.[35] How this version of the poem ended up in a book published by the Turkish Standards Institution remained a topic of discussion.[40]\n\nErdo\u011fan was given a ten-month prison sentence.[39] He was forced to give up his mayoral position due to his conviction. The conviction also stipulated a political ban, which prevented him from participating in elections.[41] He had appealed for the sentence to be converted to a monetary fine, but it was reduced to four months instead (24 March 1999 to 27 July 1999).[42]\n\nHe was transferred to P\u0131narhisar prison in K\u0131rklareli. The day Erdo\u011fan went to prison, he released an album called This Song Doesn't End Here.[43] The album features a tracklist of seven poems and became the best-selling album of Turkey in 1999, selling over one million copies.[44] After his release, Erdo\u011fan sought refuge in Tetovo, Macedonia with an ethnic Albanian family with whom he stayed with for several months.[45]\n\nIn 2013, Erdo\u011fan visited the P\u0131narhisar prison again for the first time in fourteen years. After the visit, he said \"For me, P\u0131narhisar is a symbol of rebirth, where we prepared the establishment of the Justice and Development Party\".[46]\n\nJustice and Development Party\nParty leader Erdo\u011fan's meeting with Romano Prodi (President of the European Commission) and G\u00fcnter Verheugen (European Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement) in Brussels, Belgium, 2002\n\nErdo\u011fan was member of political parties that kept getting banned by the army or judges. Within his Virtue Party, there was a dispute about the appropriate discourse of the party between traditional politicians and pro-reform politicians. The latter envisioned a party that could operate within the limits of the system, and thus not getting banned as its predecessors like National Order Party, National Salvation Party and Welfare Party. They wanted to give the group the character of an ordinary conservative party with its members being Muslim Democrats following the example of the Europe's Christian Democrats.[35]\n\nWhen the Virtue Party was also banned in 2001, a definitive split took place: the followers of Necmettin Erbakan founded the Felicity Party (SP) and the reformers founded the Justice and Development Party (AKP) under the leadership of Abdullah G\u00fcl and Erdo\u011fan. The pro-reform politicians realized that a strictly Islamic party would never be accepted as a governing party by the state apparatus and they believed that an Islamic party did not appeal to more than about 20 percent of the Turkish electorate. The AK party emphatically placed itself as a broad democratic conservative party with new politicians from the political centre (like Ali Babacan and Mevl\u00fct \u00c7avu\u015fo\u011flu), while respecting Islamic norms and values, but without an explicit religious program. This turned out to be successful as the new party won 34% of the vote in the general elections of 2002. Erdo\u011fan became prime minister in March 2003 after the G\u00fcl government ended his political ban.[47]\n\nPremiership\n\n\nPrime Minister Erdo\u011fan during a press conference with Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, at the Office of the Prime Minister (Ba\u015fbakanl\u0131k), in 2014\n\nGeneral elections\n\n\nThe elections of 2002 were the first elections in which Erdo\u011fan participated as a party leader. All parties previously elected to parliament failed to win enough votes to re-enter the parliament. The AKP won 34.3% of the national vote and formed the new government. Turkish stocks rose more than 7% on Monday morning. Politicians of the previous generation, such as Ecevit, Bahceli, Y\u0131lmaz and \u00c7iller, resigned. The second largest party, the CHP, received 19.4% of the votes. The AKP won a landslide victory in the parliament, taking nearly two-thirds of the seats. Erdo\u011fan could not become Prime Minister as he was still banned from politics by the judiciary for his speech in Siirt. G\u00fcl became the Prime Minister instead. In December 2002, the Supreme Election Board cancelled the general election results from Siirt due to voting irregularities and scheduled a new election for 9 February 2003. By this time, party leader Erdo\u011fan was able to run for parliament due to a legal change made possible by the opposition Republican People's Party. The AKP duly listed Erdo\u011fan as a candidate for the rescheduled election, which he won, becoming Prime Minister after G\u00fcl handed over the post.[48]\n\nOn 14 April 2007, an estimated 300,000 people marched in Ankara to protest against the possible candidacy of Erdo\u011fan in the 2007 presidential election, afraid that if elected as president, he would alter the secular nature of the Turkish state.[49] Erdo\u011fan announced on 24 April 2007 that the party had nominated Abdullah G\u00fcl as the AKP candidate in the presidential election.[50][51] The protests continued over the next several weeks, with over one million people reported to have turned out at a 29 April rally in Istanbul,[52] tens of thousands at separate protests on 4 May in Manisa and \u00c7anakkale,[53] and one million in \u0130zmir on 13 May.[54]\n\nThe stage of the elections of 2007 was set for a fight for legitimacy in the eyes of voters between his government and the CHP. Erdo\u011fan used the event that took place during the ill-fated Presidential elections a few months earlier as a part of the general election campaign of his party. On 22 July 2007, the AKP won an important victory over the opposition, garnering 46.7% of the popular vote. 22 July elections marked only the second time in the Republic of Turkey's history whereby an incumbent governing party won an election by increasing its share of popular support.[55] On 14 March 2008, Turkey's Chief Prosecutor asked the country's Constitutional Court to ban Erdo\u011fan's governing party.[56] The party escaped a ban on 30 July 2008, a year after winning 46.7% of the vote in national elections, although judges did cut the party's public funding by 50%.[57]\n\nIn the June 2011 elections, Erdo\u011fan's governing party won 327 seats (49.83% of the popular vote) making Erdo\u011fan the only prime minister in Turkey's history to win three consecutive general elections, each time receiving more votes than the previous election. The second party, the Republican People's Party (CHP), received 135 seats (25.94%), the nationalist MHP received 53 seats (13.01%), and the Independents received 35 seats (6.58%).[58]\n\nA US$100\u00a0billion corruption scandal in 2013 led to the arrests of Erdo\u011fan's close allies, and incriminated Erdo\u011fan.[59][60][61]\n\nReferendums\n\n\nErdo\u011fan in a meeting with the Main Opposition Leader Deniz Baykal of the Republican People's Party (CHP)\n\nAfter the opposition parties deadlocked the 2007 presidential election by boycotting the parliament, the ruling AKP proposed a constitutional reform package. The reform package was first vetoed by President Ahmet Necdet Sezer. Then he applied to the Turkish constitutional court about the reform package, because the president is unable to veto amendments for the second time. The Turkish constitutional court did not find any problems in the packet and 68.95% of the voters supported the constitutional changes.[62] The reforms consisted of electing the president by popular vote instead of by parliament; reducing the presidential term from seven years to five; allowing the president to stand for re-election for a second term; holding general elections every four years instead of five; and reducing from 367 to 184 the quorum of lawmakers needed for parliamentary decisions.\n\nReforming the Constitution was one of the main pledges of the AKP during the 2007 election campaign. The main opposition party CHP was not interested in altering the Constitution on a big scale, making it impossible to form a Constitutional Commission (Anayasa Uzla\u015fma Komisyonu).[63] The amendments lacked the two-thirds majority needed to become law instantly, but secured 336 votes in the 550-seat parliament \u2013 enough to put the proposals to a referendum. The reform package included a number of issues such as the right of individuals to appeal to the highest court, the creation of the ombudsman's office; the possibility to negotiate a nationwide labour contract; gender equality; the ability of civilian courts to convict members of the military; the right of civil servants to go on strike; a privacy law; and the structure of the Constitutional Court. The referendum was agreed by a majority of 58%.[64]\n\nDomestic policy\nKurdish issue\n\n\nIn 2009, Prime Minister Erdo\u011fan's government announced a plan to help end the quarter-century-long Turkey\u2013Kurdistan Workers' Party conflict that had cost more than 40,000 lives. The government's plan, supported by the European Union, intended to allow the Kurdish language to be used in all broadcast media and political campaigns, and restored Kurdish names to cities and towns that had been given Turkish ones.[65] Erdo\u011fan said, \"We took a courageous step to resolve chronic issues that constitute an obstacle along Turkey's development, progression and empowerment.\"[65] Erdo\u011fan passed a partial amnesty to reduce penalties faced by many members of the Kurdish guerrilla movement PKK who had surrendered to the government.[66] On 23 November 2011, during a televised meeting of his party in Ankara, he apologized on behalf of the state for the Dersim massacre, where many Alevis and Zazas were killed.[67] In 2013 the government of Erdo\u011fan began a peace process between the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and the Turkish Government,[68] mediated by parliamentarians of the Peoples' Democratic party (HDP).[69]\n\nIn 2015, following AKP electoral defeat, the rise of a social democrat, pro-Kurdish rights opposition party, and the minor Ceylanp\u0131nar incident, he decided that the peace process was over and supported the revocation of the parliamentary immunity of the HDP parliamentarians.[70] Violent confrontation resumed in 2015\u20132017, mainly in the South East of Turkey, resulting in higher death tolls and several external operations on the part of the Turkish military. Representatives and elected HDP have been systematically arrested, removed, and replaced in their offices, this tendency being confirmed after the 2016 Turkish coup attempt and the following purges. Six thousand additional deaths occurred in Turkey alone for 2015\u20132022. Yet, as of 2022 the intensity of the PKK-Turkey conflict did decrease in recent years.[71] In the previous decade, Erdo\u011fan and the AKP government used anti-PKK, martial rhetoric and external operations to raise Turkish nationalist votes before elections.[72][73][74]\n\nHuman rights\nDuring Erdo\u011fan's time as Prime Minister, the far-reaching powers of the 1991 Anti-Terror Law were reduced. In 2004, the death penalty was abolished for all circumstances.[75] The Democratic initiative process was initiated, with the goal to improve democratic standards in general and the rights of ethnic and religious minorities in particular. In 2012, the Human Rights and Equality Institution of Turkey and the Ombudsman Institution were established. The UN Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture was ratified. Children are no longer prosecuted under terrorism legislation.[76] The Jewish community were allowed to celebrate Hanukkah publicly for the first time in modern Turkish history in 2015.[77] The Turkish government approved a law in 2008 to return properties confiscated in the past by the state to non-Muslim foundations.[78] It also paved the way for the free allocation of worship places such as synagogues and churches to non-Muslim foundations.[79] However, European officials noted a return to more authoritarian ways after the stalling of Turkey's bid to join the European Union[80] notably on freedom of speech,[81][82][83] freedom of the press[84][85][86] and Kurdish minority rights.[87][88][89][90] Demands by activists for the recognition of LGBTQ rights were publicly rejected by government members.[91][92]\n\nReporters Without Borders reported a continuous decrease in Freedom of the Press during Erdo\u011fan's later terms, with a rank of around 100 on its Press Freedom Index during his first term and a rank of 153 out of a total of 179 countries in 2021.[93] Freedom House reported a slight recovery in later years and awarded Turkey a Press Freedom Score of 55/100 in 2012 after a low point of 48/100 in 2006.[94][95][96][97]\n\nIn 2011, Erdo\u011fan's government made legal reforms to return properties of Christian and Jewish minorities which were seized by the Turkish government in the 1930s.[98] The total value of the properties returned reached $2\u00a0billion (USD).[99]\n\nUnder Erdo\u011fan, the Turkish government tightened the laws on the sale and consumption of alcohol, banning all advertising and increasing the tax on alcoholic beverages.[100]\n\nEconomy\nPublic debt of the six major European countries between 2002 and 2009 as a percentage of GDP\nGDP per capita PPP of Turkey compared to other emerging economies\n\nIn 2002, Erdo\u011fan inherited a Turkish economy that was beginning to recover from a recession as a result of reforms implemented by Kemal Dervi\u015f.[101] Erdo\u011fan supported Finance Minister Ali Babacan in enforcing macro-economic policies. Erdo\u011fan tried to attract more foreign investors to Turkey and lifted many government regulations. The cash-flow into the Turkish economy between 2002 and 2012 caused a growth of 64% in real GDP and a 43% increase in GDP per capita; considerably higher numbers were commonly advertised but these did not account for the inflation of the US dollar between 2002 and 2012.[102] The average annual growth in GDP per capita was 3.6%. The growth in real GDP between 2002 and 2012 was higher than the values from developed countries, but was close to average when developing countries are also taken into account. The ranking of the Turkish economy in terms of GDP moved slightly from 17 to 16 during this decade. A major consequence of the policies between 2002 and 2012 was the widening of the current account deficit from US$600\u00a0million to US$58\u00a0billion (2013 est.)[103]\n\nSince 1961, Turkey has signed 19 IMF loan accords. Erdo\u011fan's government satisfied the budgetary and market requirements of the two during his administration and received every loan installment, the only time any Turkish government has done so.[104] Erdo\u011fan inherited a debt of $23.5\u00a0billion to the IMF, which was reduced to $0.9\u00a0billion in 2012. He decided not to sign a new deal. Turkey's debt to the IMF was thus declared to be completely paid and he announced that the IMF could borrow from Turkey.[105] In 2010, five-year credit default swaps for Turkey's sovereign debt were trading at a record low of 1.17%, below those of nine EU member countries and Russia. In 2002, the Turkish Central Bank had $26.5\u00a0billion in reserves. This amount reached $92.2\u00a0billion in 2011. During Erdo\u011fan's leadership, inflation fell from 32% to 9.0% in 2004. Since then, Turkish inflation has continued to fluctuate around 9% and is still one of the highest inflation rates in the world.[106] The Turkish public debt as a percentage of annual GDP declined from 74% in 2002 to 39% in 2009. In 2012, Turkey had a lower ratio of public debt to GDP than 21 of 27 members of the European Union and a lower budget deficit to GDP ratio than 23 of them.[107]\n\nIn 2003, Erdo\u011fan's government pushed through the Labor Act, a comprehensive reform of Turkey's labour laws. The law greatly expanded the rights of employees, establishing a 45-hour workweek and limiting overtime work to 270 hours a year, provided legal protection against discrimination due to sex, religion, or political affiliation, prohibited discrimination between permanent and temporary workers, entitled employees terminated without \"valid cause\" to compensation, and mandated written contracts for employment arrangements lasting a year or more.[108][109]\n\nEducation\nErdo\u011fan increased the budget of the Ministry of Education from 7.5\u00a0billion lira in 2002 to 34\u00a0billion lira in 2011, the highest share of the national budget given to one ministry.[110] Before his prime ministership the military received the highest share of the national budget. Compulsory education was increased from eight years to twelve.[111] In 2003, the Turkish government, together with UNICEF, initiated a campaign called \"Come on girls, [let's go] to school!\" (Turkish: Haydi K\u0131zlar Okula!). The goal of this campaign was to close the gender gap in primary school enrollment through the provision of a quality basic education for all girls, especially in southeast Turkey.[112]\n\nIn 2005, the parliament granted amnesty to students expelled from universities before 2003. The amnesty applied to students dismissed on academic or disciplinary grounds.[113] In 2004, textbooks became free of charge and since 2008 every province in Turkey has its own university.[114] During Erdo\u011fan's Premiership, the number of universities in Turkey nearly doubled, from 98 in 2002 to 186 in October 2012.[115]\n\nThe Prime Minister kept his campaign promises by starting the Fatih project in which all state schools, from preschool to high school level, received a total of 620,000 smart boards, while tablet computers were distributed to 17\u00a0million students and approximately one million teachers and administrators.[116]\n\nIn June 2017 a draft proposal by the ministry of education was approved by Erdo\u011fan, in which the curriculum for schools excluded the teaching of the theory of evolution of Charles Darwin by 2019. From then on the teaching will be postponed and start at undergraduate level.[117]\n\nInfrastructure\nThe 1915 \u00c7anakkale Bridge, the longest suspension bridge in the world, was officially opened by Erdo\u011fan in 2022.[118][119]\n\nUnder Erdo\u011fan's government, the number of airports in Turkey increased from 26 to 50 in the period of 10 years.[120] Between the founding of the Republic of Turkey in 1923 and 2002, there had been 6,000\u00a0km of dual carriageway roads created. Between 2002 and 2011, another 13,500\u00a0km of expressway were built. Due to these measures, the number of motor accidents fell by 50 percent.[121] For the first time in Turkish history, high speed railway lines were constructed, and the country's high-speed train service began in 2009.[122] In 8 years, 1,076\u00a0km of railway were built and 5,449\u00a0km of railway renewed. The construction of Marmaray, an undersea rail tunnel under the Bosphorus strait, started in 2004. It was inaugurated on the 90th anniversary of the Turkish Republic 29 October 2013.[123] The inauguration of the Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge, the third bridge over the Bosphorus, was on 26 August 2016.[124]\n\nJustice\nThe new Court of Cassation (Yarg\u0131tay) building in Ankara was opened in 2021.\n\nIn March 2006, the Supreme Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSYK) held a press conference to publicly protest the obstruction of the appointment of judges to the high courts for over 10 months. The HSYK said Erdo\u011fan wanted to fill the vacant posts with his own appointees. Erdo\u011fan was accused of creating a rift with Turkey's highest court of appeal, the Yarg\u0131tay, and high administrative court, the Dan\u0131\u015ftay. Erdo\u011fan stated that the constitution gave the power to assign these posts to his elected party.[125]\n\nIn May 2007, the head of Turkey's High Court asked prosecutors to consider whether Erdo\u011fan should be charged over critical comments regarding the election of Abdullah G\u00fcl as president.[125] Erdo\u011fan said the ruling was \"a disgrace to the justice system\", and criticized the Constitutional Court which had invalidated a presidential vote because a boycott by other parties meant there was no quorum. Prosecutors investigated his earlier comments, including saying it had fired a \"bullet at democracy\". T\u00fclay Tu\u011fcu, head of the Constitutional Court, condemned Erdo\u011fan for \"threats, insults and hostility\" towards the justice system.[126]\n\nCivil\u2013military relations\n\n\nErdo\u011fan during an official visit to Peru, with a member of the Turkish army behind him\nThe Turkish military has had a record of intervening in politics, having removed elected governments four times in the past. During the Erdo\u011fan government, civil\u2013military relationship moved towards normalization in which the influence of the military in politics was significantly reduced.[127] The ruling Justice and Development Party has often faced off against the military, gaining political power by challenging a pillar of the country's laicistic establishment.\n\nThe most significant issue that caused deep fissures between the army and the government was the midnight e-memorandum posted on the military's website objecting to the selection of Foreign Minister Abdullah G\u00fcl as the ruling party's candidate for the Presidency in 2007. The military argued that the election of G\u00fcl, whose wife wears an Islamic headscarf, could undermine the laicistic order of the country. Contrary to expectations, the government responded harshly to former Chief of General Staff Gen. Ya\u015far B\u00fcy\u00fckan\u0131t's e-memorandum, stating the military had nothing to do with the selection of the presidential candidate.[128]\n\nHealth care\nAfter assuming power in 2003, Erdo\u011fan's government embarked on a sweeping reform program of the Turkish healthcare system, called the Health Transformation Program (HTP), to greatly increase the quality of healthcare and protect all citizens from financial risks. Its introduction coincided with the period of sustained economic growth, allowing the Turkish government to put greater investments into the healthcare system. As part of the reforms, the \"Green Card\" program, which provides health benefits to the poor, was expanded in 2004.[129] The reform program aimed at increasing the ratio of private to state-run healthcare, which, along with long queues in state-run hospitals, resulted in the rise of private medical care in Turkey, forcing state-run hospitals to compete by increasing quality.\n\nIn April 2006, Erdo\u011fan unveiled a social security reform package demanded by the International Monetary Fund under a loan deal. The move, which Erdo\u011fan called one of the most radical reforms ever, was passed with fierce opposition. Turkey's three social security bodies were united under one roof, bringing equal health services and retirement benefits for members of all three bodies. The previous system had been criticized for reserving the best healthcare for civil servants and relegating others to wait in long queues. Under the second bill, everyone under the age of 18 years was entitled to free health services, irrespective of whether they pay premiums to any social security organization. The bill also envisages a gradual increase in the retirement age: starting from 2036, the retirement age will increase to 65 by 2048 for both women and men.[130]\n\nIn January 2008, the Turkish Parliament adopted a law to prohibit smoking in most public places. Erdo\u011fan is outspokenly anti-smoking.[131]\n\nForeign policy\n\n\nCountries visited by Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan as prime minister\n\nTurkish foreign policy during Erdo\u011fan's tenure as prime minister has been associated with the name of Ahmet Davuto\u011flu. Davuto\u011flu was the chief foreign policy advisor of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan before he was appointed foreign minister in 2009. The basis of Erdo\u011fan's foreign policy is based on the principle of \"don't make enemies, make friends\"[132] and the pursuit of \"zero problems\" with neighbouring countries.[133]\n\nErdo\u011fan is co-founder of United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (AOC). The initiative seeks to galvanize international action against extremism through the forging of international, intercultural and inter-religious dialogue and cooperation.\n\nEuropean Union\n\nErdo\u011fan with President in office of the EU Council and Dutch Prime Minister Balkenende and Turkish FM G\u00fcl in Brussels, Belgium (2004)\nWhen Erdo\u011fan came to power, he continued Turkey's long ambition of joining the European Union. Turkey, under Erdo\u011fan, made many strides in its laws that would qualify for EU membership.[134] On 3 October 2005 negotiations began for Turkey's accession to the European Union.[135][136] Erdo\u011fan was named \"The European of the Year 2004\" by the newspaper European Voice for the reforms in his country in order to accomplish the accession of Turkey to the European Union. He said in a comment that \"Turkey's accession shows that Europe is a continent where civilisations reconcile and not clash.\"[137] On 3 October 2005, the negotiations for Turkey's accession to the EU formally started during Erdo\u011fan's tenure as Prime Minister.[135]\n\nThe European Commission generally supports Erdo\u011fan's reforms, but it remains critical of his policies. Negotiations about a possible EU membership came to a standstill in 2009 and 2010, when Turkish ports were closed to Cypriot ships. The Turkish government continues its refusal to recognize EU member state Cyprus.\n\nGreece and Cyprus dispute\n\nErdo\u011fan with Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou\n\nRelations between Greece and Turkey were normalized during Erdo\u011fan's tenure as prime minister. In May 2004, Erdo\u011fan became the first Turkish Prime Minister to visit Greece since 1988, and the first to visit the Turkish minority of Thrace since 1952. In 2007, Erdo\u011fan and Greek Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis inaugurated the Greek-Turkish natural gas pipeline giving Caspian gas its first direct Western outlet.[138]\nTurkey and Greece signed an agreement to create a Combined Joint Operational Unit within the framework of NATO to participate in Peace Support Operations.[139]\nErdo\u011fan and his party strongly supported the EU-backed referendum to reunify Cyprus in 2004.[140] Negotiations about a possible EU membership came to a standstill in 2009 and 2010, when Turkish ports were closed to Cypriot ships as a consequence of the economic isolation of the internationally unrecognized Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus and the failure of the EU to end the isolation, as it had promised in 2004.[141] The Turkish government continues its refusal to recognize the Republic of Cyprus.[142]\n\nArmenia\n\nArmenia is Turkey's only neighbour which Erdo\u011fan has not visited during his premiership. The Turkish-Armenian border has been closed since 1993 because of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict with Turkey's close ally Azerbaijan.\n\nDiplomatic efforts resulted in the signing of protocols between Turkish and Armenian Foreign Ministers in Switzerland to improve relations between the two countries. One of the points of the agreement was the creation of a joint commission on the issue. The Armenian Constitutional Court decided that the commission contradicts the Armenian constitution. Turkey responded saying that Armenian court's ruling on the protocols is not acceptable, resulting in a suspension of the rectification process by the Turkish side.[143]\n\nErdo\u011fan has said that Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan should apologize for calling on school children to re-occupy eastern Turkey. When asked by a student at a literature contest ceremony if Armenians will be able to get back their \"western territories\" along with Mt. Ararat, Sarksyan said, \"This is the task of your generation\".[144]\n\nRussia\n\nHigh-Level Russian-Turkish Cooperation Council with Prime Minister Erdo\u011fan and President Putin\n\nIn December 2004, President Putin visited Turkey, making it the first presidential visit in the history of Turkish-Russian relations besides that of the Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, Nikolai Podgorny in 1972. In November 2005, Putin attended the inauguration of a jointly constructed Blue Stream natural gas pipeline in Turkey. This sequence of top-level visits has brought several important bilateral issues to the forefront. The two countries consider it their strategic goal to achieve \"multidimensional co-operation\", especially in the fields of energy, transport and the military. Specifically, Russia aims to invest in Turkey's fuel and energy industries, and it also expects to participate in tenders for the modernization of Turkey's military.[145] The relations during this time are described by President Medvedev as \"Turkey is one of our most important partners with respect to regional and international issues. We can confidently say that Russian-Turkish relations have advanced to the level of a multidimensional strategic partnership\".[146]\n\nIn May 2010, Turkey and Russia signed 17 agreements to enhance cooperation in energy and other fields, including pacts to build Turkey's first nuclear power plant and further plans for an oil pipeline from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean Sea. The leaders of both countries also signed an agreement on visa-free travel, enabling tourists to get into the other country for free and stay there for up to 30 days.[citation needed]\n\nUnited States\n\nErdo\u011fan and Barack Obama in White House, 7 December 2009\n\nWhen Barack Obama became President of United States, he made his first overseas bilateral meeting to Turkey in April 2009.\n\nAt a joint news conference in Turkey, Obama said: \"I'm trying to make a statement about the importance of Turkey, not just to the United States but to the world. I think that where there's the most promise of building stronger US-Turkish relations is in the recognition that Turkey and the United States can build a model partnership in which a predominantly Christian nation, a predominantly Muslim nation \u2013 a Western nation and a nation that straddles two continents,\" he continued, \"that we can create a modern international community that is respectful, that is secure, that is prosperous, that there are not tensions \u2013 inevitable tensions between cultures \u2013 which I think is extraordinarily important.\"[147]\n\nIraq\n\nTurkey under Erdo\u011fan was named by the Bush Administration as a part of the \"coalition of the willing\" that was central to the 2003 invasion of Iraq.[148] On 1 March 2003, a motion allowing Turkish military to participate in the U.S.-led coalition's invasion of Iraq, along with the permission for foreign troops to be stationed in Turkey for this purpose, was overruled by the Turkish Parliament.[149]\n\nAfter the fall of Saddam Hussein, Iraq and Turkey signed 48 trade agreements on issues including security, energy, and water. The Turkish government attempted to mend relations with Iraqi Kurdistan by opening a Turkish university in Erbil, and a Turkish consulate in Mosul.[150] Erdo\u011fan's government fostered economic and political relations with Irbil, and Turkey began to consider the Kurdistan Regional Government in northern Iraq as an ally against Maliki's government.[151]\n\nIsrael\n\nErdo\u011fan walks out of the session at the World Economic Forum in 2009, vows never to return.\n\nErdo\u011fan visited Israel on 1 May 2005, a gesture unusual for a leader of a Muslim majority country.[152] During his trip, Erdo\u011fan visited the Yad Vashem, Israel's official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust.[152] The President of Israel Shimon Peres addressed the Turkish parliament during a visit in 2007, the first time an Israeli leader had addressed the legislature of a predominantly Muslim nation.[153]\n\nTheir relationship worsened at the 2009 World Economic Forum conference over Israel's actions during the Gaza War.[154] Erdo\u011fan was interrupted by the moderator while he was responding to Peres. Erdo\u011fan stated: \"Mister Peres, you are older than I am. Maybe you are feeling guilty and that is why you are raising your voice. When it comes to killing you know it too well. I remember how you killed the children on beaches...\" Upon the moderator's reminder that they needed to adjourn for dinner, Erdo\u011fan left the panel, accusing the moderator of giving Peres more time than all the other panelists combined.[155]\n\nTensions increased further following the Gaza flotilla raid in May 2010. Erdo\u011fan strongly condemned the raid, describing it as \"state terrorism\", and demanded an Israeli apology.[156] In February 2013, Erdo\u011fan called Zionism a \"crime against humanity\", comparing it to Islamophobia, antisemitism, and fascism.[157] He later retracted the statement, saying he had been misinterpreted. He said \"everyone should know\" that his comments were directed at \"Israeli policies\", especially as regards \"Gaza and the settlements\".[158][159] Erdo\u011fan's statements were criticized by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, among others.[160][161] In August 2013, the H\u00fcrriyet reported that Erdo\u011fan had claimed to have evidence of Israel's responsibility for the removal of Morsi from office in Egypt.[162] The Israeli and Egyptian governments dismissed the suggestion.[163]\n\nIn response to the 2014 Gaza War, Erdo\u011fan accused Israel of conducting \"state terrorism\" and a \"genocide attempt\" against the Palestinians.[164] He also stated that \"If Israel continues with this attitude, it will definitely be tried at international courts.\"[165]\n\nSyria\n\nAngela Merkel, Vladimir Putin, Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan and Emmanuel Macron giving a press conference as part of Syria summit in Istanbul, Turkey\n\nDuring Erdo\u011fan's term of office, diplomatic relations between Turkey and Syria significantly deteriorated. In 2004, President Bashar al-Assad arrived in Turkey for the first official visit by a Syrian President in 57 years. In late 2004, Erdo\u011fan signed a free trade agreement with Syria. Visa restrictions between the two countries were lifted in 2009, which caused an economic boom in the regions near the Syrian border.[166] However, in 2011 the relationship between the two countries was strained following the outbreak of conflict in Syria. Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan said he was trying to \"cultivate a favorable relationship with whatever government would take the place of Assad\".[167] However, he began to support the opposition in Syria, after demonstrations turned violent, creating a serious Syrian refugee problem in Turkey.[168] Erdo\u011fan's policy of providing military training for anti-Damascus fighters has also created conflict with Syria's ally and a neighbour of Turkey, Iran.[169] Today, Turkey is the main backer of the transitional Syrian administration led by Ahmed Al-Sharaa.[170]\n\nSaudi Arabia\n\n\nIn August 2006, King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz as-Saud made a visit to Turkey. This was the first visit by a Saudi monarch to Turkey in the last four decades. The monarch made a second visit, on 9 November 2007. Turk-Saudi trade volume has exceeded US$ 3.2\u00a0billion in 2006, almost double the figure achieved in 2003. In 2009, this amount reached US$ 5.5\u00a0billion and the goal for the year 2010 was US$ 10\u00a0billion.[171]\n\nErdo\u011fan condemned the Saudi-led intervention in Bahrain and characterized the Saudi movement as \"a new Karbala\". He demanded withdrawal of Saudi forces from Bahrain.[172]\n\nEgypt\n\nErdo\u011fan had made his first official visit to Egypt on 12 September 2011, accompanied by six ministers and 200 businessmen.[173] This visit was made very soon after Turkey had ejected Israeli ambassadors, cutting off all diplomatic relations with Israel because Israel refused to apologize for the 2010 Gaza flotilla raid which killed eight Turkish and one Turco-American.[173]\n\nErdo\u011fan's visit to Egypt was met with much enthusiasm by Egyptians. CNN reported some Egyptians saying \"We consider him as the Islamic leader in the Middle East\", while others were appreciative of his role in supporting Gaza.[173] Erdo\u011fan was later honoured in Tahrir Square by members of the Egyptian Revolution Youth Union, and members of the Turkish embassy were presented with a coat of arms in acknowledgment of the Prime Minister's support of the Egyptian Revolution.[174]\n\nErdo\u011fan stated in a 2011 interview that he supported secularism for Egypt, which generated an angry reaction among Islamic movements, especially the Freedom and Justice Party, which was the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood.[174] However, commentators suggest that by forming an alliance with the military junta during Egypt's transition to democracy, Erdo\u011fan may have tipped the balance in favour of an authoritarian government.[174]\n\nErdo\u011fan condemned the sit-in dispersals conducted by Egyptian police on 14 August 2013 at the Rabaa al-Adawiya and al-Nahda squares, where violent clashes between police officers and pro-Morsi Islamist protesters led to hundreds of deaths, mostly protesters.[175] In July 2014, one year after the removal of Mohamed Morsi from office, Erdo\u011fan described Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi as an \"illegitimate tyrant\".[176]\n\nSomalia\n\nErdo\u011fan and Somalia President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud opening the new terminal of Aden Abdulle International Airport in Mogadishu, Somalia\n\nErdo\u011fan's administration maintains strong ties with the Somali government. During the drought of 2011, Erdo\u011fan's government contributed over $201\u00a0million to humanitarian relief efforts in the impacted parts of Somalia.[177] Following a greatly improved security situation in Mogadishu in mid-2011, the Turkish government also re-opened its foreign embassy with the intention of more effectively assisting in the post-conflict development process.[178] It was among the first foreign governments to resume formal diplomatic relations with Somalia after the civil war.[179]\n\nIn May 2010, the Turkish and Somali governments signed a military training agreement, in keeping with the provisions outlined in the Djibouti Peace Process.[180] Turkish Airlines became the first long-distance international commercial airline in two decades to resume flights to and from Mogadishu's Aden Adde International Airport.[179] Turkey also launched various development and infrastructure projects in Somalia including building several hospitals and helping renovate the National Assembly building.[179]\n\nProtests\n\n\nThe 2013 Gezi Park protests were held against the perceived authoritarianism of Erdo\u011fan and his policies, starting from a small sit-in in Istanbul in defence of a city park.[181] After the police's intense reaction with tear gas, the protests grew each day. Faced by the largest mass protest in a decade, Erdo\u011fan made this controversial remark in a televised speech: \"The police were there yesterday, they are there today, and they will be there tomorrow\". After weeks of clashes in the streets of Istanbul, his government at first apologized to the protestors[182] and called for a plebiscite, but then ordered a crackdown on the protesters.[181][183]\n\nPresidency\n\n\nErdo\u011fan took the oath of office on 28 August 2014 and became the 12th president of Turkey.[184] He administered the new Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto\u011flu's oath on 29 August. When asked about his lower-than-expected 51.79% share of the vote, he allegedly responded, \"there were even those who did not like the Prophet. I, however, won 52%\".[185] Assuming the role of President, Erdo\u011fan was criticized for openly stating that he would not maintain the tradition of presidential neutrality.[186] Erdo\u011fan has also stated his intention to pursue a more active role as president, such as utilizing the President's rarely used cabinet-calling powers.[187] The political opposition has argued that Erdo\u011fan will continue to pursue his own political agenda, controlling the government, while his new Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto\u011flu would be docile and submissive.[188] Furthermore, the domination of loyal Erdo\u011fan supporters in Davuto\u011flu's cabinet fuelled speculation that Erdo\u011fan intended to exercise substantial control over the government.[189]\n\nPresidential elections\n\n\n2018 presidential election ballot paper for Diyarbak\u0131r Province\n\nOn 1 July 2014, Erdo\u011fan was named the AKP's presidential candidate in the Turkish presidential election. His candidacy was announced by the Deputy President of the AKP, Mehmet Ali \u015eahin.\n\nErdo\u011fan made a speech after the announcement and used the 'Erdo\u011fan logo' for the first time. The logo was criticized because it was very similar to the logo that U.S. President Barack Obama used in the 2008 presidential election.[190]\n\nErdo\u011fan was elected as the President of Turkey in the first round of the election with 51.79% of the vote, obviating the need for a run-off by winning over 50%. The joint candidate of the CHP, MHP and 13 other opposition parties, former Organisation of Islamic Co-operation general secretary Ekmeleddin \u0130hsano\u011flu won 38.44% of the vote. The pro-Kurdish HDP candidate Selahattin Demirta\u015f won 9.76%.[191]\n\nThe 2018 Turkish presidential election took place as part of the 2018 general election, alongside parliamentary elections on the same day. Following the approval of constitutional changes in a referendum held in 2017, the elected President will be both the head of state and head of government of Turkey, taking over the latter role from the to-be-abolished office of the Prime Minister.[192]\n\nErdo\u011fan declared his candidacy for the People's Alliance (Turkish: Cumhur \u0130ttifak\u0131) on 27 April 2018, with support from the MHP.[193] His main opposition, the Republican People's Party, nominated Muharrem \u0130nce, a member of parliament known for his combative opposition and spirited speeches against Erdo\u011fan.[194] In addition to these candidates, Meral Ak\u015fener, the founder and leader of the Good Party, Temel Karamollao\u011flu, the leader of the Felicity Party, and Do\u011fu Perin\u00e7ek, the leader of the Patriotic Party, also announced their candidacies and gathered the 100,000 signatures required for nomination. Erdo\u011fan won the election with 52.59% of the popular vote.[195]\n\nIn the 2023 presidential election, Erdo\u011fan's candidacy was contested due to his campaign launch in June 2022,[196] with the opposition arguing that a third term would violate the constitution.[197] In the first round of voting, Erdo\u011fan failed to secure the required 50% threshold, leading to a runoff election against the runner-up, Kemal K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu.[198] Erdo\u011fan ultimately won the second round on 28 May 2023, receiving 52.18% of the vote.\n\nOn 8 March 2024, he declared that he would retire once his presidential term ended in 2028.[199]\n\nReferendum\n\nIn April 2017, a constitutional referendum was held, where the voters in Turkey (and Turkish citizens abroad) approved a set of 18 proposed amendments to the Constitution of Turkey.[200] The amendments included the replacement of the existing parliamentary system with a presidential system. The post of Prime Minister would be abolished, and the presidency would become an executive post vested with broad executive powers. The parliament seats would be increased from 550 to 600 and the age of candidacy to the parliament was lowered from 25 to 18. The referendum also called for changes to the Supreme Board of Judges and Prosecutors.[201]\n\nLocal elections\n\n\n\nIn the 2019 local elections, the ruling party AKP lost control of Istanbul and Ankara for the first time in 25 years, as well as 5 of Turkey's 6 largest cities. The loss has been widely attributed to Erdo\u011fan's mismanagement of the Turkish economic crisis, rising authoritarianism as well as the alleged government inaction on the Syrian refugee crisis.[202] Soon after the elections, Supreme Electoral Council of Turkey ordered a re-election in Istanbul, cancelling Ekrem \u0130mamo\u011flu's mayoral certificate. The decision led to a significant decrease of Erdo\u011fan's and AKP's popularity and his party lost the elections again in June with a greater margin.[203][204][205][206] The result was seen as a huge blow to Erdo\u011fan, who had once said that if his party 'lost Istanbul, we would lose Turkey. The opposition's victory was characterised as 'the beginning of the end' for Erdo\u011fan',[207][208][209] with international commentators calling the re-run a huge government miscalculation that led to a potential \u0130mamo\u011flu candidacy in the next scheduled presidential election.[207][209] It is suspected that the scale of the government's defeat could provoke a cabinet reshuffle and early general elections, currently scheduled for June 2023.[210][211]\n\nThe New Zealand and Australian governments and opposition CHP party have criticized Erdo\u011fan after he repeatedly showed video taken by the Christchurch mosque shooter to his supporters at campaign rallies for 31 March local elections and said Australians and New Zealanders who came to Turkey with anti-Muslim sentiments \"would be sent back in coffins like their grandfathers\" at Gallipoli.[212][213]\n\nDomestic policy\nPresidential palace\nErdo\u011fan has also received criticism for the construction of a new official residence called the Presidential Complex, which takes up approximately 50 acres of Atat\u00fcrk Forest Farm (AO\u00c7) in Ankara.[214][215] Since the AO\u00c7 is protected land, several court orders were issued to halt the construction of the new palace, though building work went on nonetheless.[216] The opposition described the move as a clear disregard for the rule of law.[217] The project was subject to heavy criticism and allegations were made; of corruption during the construction process, wildlife destruction and the complete obliteration of the zoo in the AO\u00c7 in order to make way for the new compound.[218] The fact that the palace is technically illegal has led to it being branded as the 'Ka\u00e7-Ak Saray', the word ka\u00e7ak in Turkish meaning 'illegal'.[219]\n\nAk Saray was originally designed as a new office for the Prime Minister. However, upon assuming the presidency, Erdo\u011fan announced that the palace would become the new Presidential Palace, while the \u00c7ankaya Mansion will be used by the Prime Minister instead. The move was seen as a historic change since the \u00c7ankaya Mansion had been used as the iconic office of the presidency ever since its inception. The Presidential Complex has almost 1,000 rooms and cost $350\u00a0million (\u20ac270\u00a0million), leading to strong criticism at a time when mining accidents and workers' rights had been dominating the agenda.[220][221]\n\nOn 29 October 2014, Erdo\u011fan was due to hold a Republic Day reception in the new palace to commemorate the 91st anniversary of the Republic of Turkey and to officially inaugurate the Presidential Palace. However, after most invited participants announced that they would boycott the event and a mining accident occurred in the district of Ermenek in Karaman, the reception was cancelled.[222]\n\nThe media\nTurkish journalists protesting imprisonment of their colleagues on Human Rights Day, 10 December 2016\nPresident Erdo\u011fan and his government continue to press for court action against the remaining free press in Turkey. The latest newspaper that has been seized is Zaman, in March 2016.[223] After the seizure Morton Abramowitz and Eric Edelman, former U.S. ambassadors to Turkey, condemned President Erdo\u011fan's actions in an opinion piece published by The Washington Post: \"Clearly, democracy cannot flourish under Erdo\u011fan now\".[224] \"The overall pace of reforms in Turkey has not only slowed down but in some key areas, such as freedom of expression and the independence of the judiciary, there has been a regression, which is particularly worrying\", rapporteur Kati Piri said in April 2016 after the European Parliament passed its annual progress report on Turkey.[225]\n\nOn 22 June 2016, President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan said that he considered himself successful in \"destroying\" Turkish civil groups \"working against the state\",[226] a conclusion that had been confirmed some days earlier by Sedat La\u00e7iner, Professor of International Relations and rector of the \u00c7anakkale Onsekiz Mart University: \"Outlawing unarmed and peaceful opposition, sentencing people to unfair punishment under erroneous terror accusations, will feed genuine terrorism in Erdo\u011fan's Turkey. Guns and violence will become the sole alternative for legally expressing free thought\".[227]\n\nAfter the coup attempt, over 200 journalists were arrested and over 120 media outlets were closed. Cumhuriyet journalists were detained in November 2016 after a long-standing crackdown on the newspaper. Subsequently, Reporters Without Borders called Erdo\u011fan an \"enemy of press freedom\" and said that he \"hides his aggressive dictatorship under a veneer of democracy\".[228]\n\nIn 2014, Turkey temporarily blocked access to Twitter.[229] In April 2017, Turkey blocked all access to Wikipedia over a content dispute.[230] The Turkish government lifted a two-and-a-half-year ban on Wikipedia on 15 January 2020, restoring access to the online encyclopedia a month after Turkey's top court ruled that blocking Wikipedia was unconstitutional.\n\nOn 1 July 2020, in a statement made to his party members, Erdo\u011fan announced that the government would introduce new measures and regulations to control or shut down social media platforms such as YouTube, Twitter and Netflix. Through these new measures, each company would be required to appoint an official representative in the country to respond to legal concerns. The decision came after a number of Twitter users insulted his daughter Esra after she gave birth to her fourth child.[231]\n\nState of emergency and purges\n\n\nOn 20 July 2016, President Erdo\u011fan declared the state of emergency, citing the coup d'\u00e9tat attempt as justification.[232] It was first scheduled to last three months. The Turkish parliament approved this measure.[233] The state of emergency was later continuously extended until 2018[234][235] amidst the ongoing purges in Turkey following the 2016 Turkish coup attempt including comprehensive purges of independent media and detention of tens of thousands of Turkish citizens politically opposed to Erdo\u011fan.[236] More than 50,000 people have been arrested and over 160,000 fired from their jobs by March 2018.[237][234]\n\nTurkish journalists Can D\u00fcndar and Erdem G\u00fcl were arrested for leaking classified information about Turkish support to Islamist fighters in Syria.\nIn August 2016, Erdo\u011fan began rounding up journalists who had been publishing, or who were about to publish articles questioning corruption within the Erdo\u011fan administration, and incarcerating them.[238] The number of Turkish journalists jailed by Turkey is higher than any other country, including all of those journalists currently jailed in North Korea, Cuba, Russia, and China combined.[239] In the wake of the coup attempt of July 2016 the Erdo\u011fan administration began rounding up tens of thousands of individuals, both from within the government, and from the public sector, and incarcerating them on charges of alleged \"terrorism\".[240][241][242] As a result of these arrests, many in the international community complained about the lack of proper judicial process in the incarceration of Erdo\u011fan's opposition.[243]\u00a0\n\nIn April 2017 Erdo\u011fan successfully sponsored legislation effectively making it illegal for the Turkish legislative branch to investigate his executive branch of government.[244] Without the checks and balances of freedom of speech, and the freedom of the Turkish legislature to hold him accountable for his actions, many have likened Turkey's current form of government to a dictatorship with only nominal forms of democracy in practice.[245][246] At the time of Erdo\u011fan's successful passing of the most recent legislation silencing his opposition, United States President Donald Trump called Erdo\u011fan to congratulate him for his \"recent referendum victory\".[247]\n\nOn 29 April 2017 Erdo\u011fan's administration began an internal Internet block of all of the Wikipedia online encyclopedia site via Turkey's domestic Internet filtering system. This blocking action took place after the government had first made a request for Wikipedia to remove what it referred to as \"offensive content\". In response, Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales replied via a post on Twitter stating, \"Access to information is a fundamental human right. Turkish people, I will always stand with you and fight for this right.\"[248][249]\n\nIn January 2016, more than a thousand academics signed a petition criticizing Turkey's military crackdown on ethnic Kurdish towns and neighborhoods in the east of the country, such as Sur (a district of Diyarbak\u0131r), Silvan, Nusaybin, Cizre and Silopi, and asking an end to violence.[250] Erdo\u011fan accused those who signed the petition of \"terrorist propaganda\", calling them \"the darkest of people\". He called for action by institutions and universities, stating, \"Everyone who benefits from this state but is now an enemy of the state must be punished without further delay\".[251] Within days, over 30 of the signatories were arrested, many in dawn-time raids on their homes. Although all were quickly released, nearly half were fired from their jobs, eliciting a denunciation from Turkey's Science Academy for such \"wrong and disturbing\" treatment.[252] Erdo\u011fan vowed that the academics would pay the price for \"falling into a pit of treachery\".[253]\n\nOn 8 July 2018, Erdo\u011fan sacked 18,000 officials for alleged ties to US based cleric Fethullah G\u00fclen, shortly before renewing his term as an executive president. Of those removed, 9000 were police officers with 5000 from the armed forces with the addition of hundreds of academics.[254]\n\nEconomic policy\nUnder his presidency, Erdo\u011fan has decreased the independence of the Central Bank and pushed it to pursue a highly unorthodox monetary policy, decreasing interest rates even with high inflation.[255] He has pushed the theory that inflation is caused by high interest rates, an idea universally rejected by economists.[255][256] This, along with other factors such as excessive current account deficit and foreign-currency debt,[257] in combination with Erdo\u011fan's increasing authoritarianism, caused an economic crisis starting from 2018, leading to large depreciation of the Turkish lira and very high inflation.[258][259][260][261] Economist Paul Krugman described the unfolding crisis as \"a classic currency-and-debt crisis, of a kind we've seen many times\", adding: \"At such a time, the quality of leadership suddenly matters a great deal. You need officials who understand what's happening, can devise a response and have enough credibility that markets give them the benefit of the doubt. Some emerging markets have those things, and they are riding out the turmoil fairly well. The Erdo\u011fan regime has none of that\".[262]\n\nForeign policy\n\n\nEurope\n\n\nForeign trips made by Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan as President (since 2014). Darker blue indicates more visits; Turkey is shaded in red.\nIn February 2016, Erdo\u011fan threatened to send the millions of refugees in Turkey to EU member states,[263] saying: \"We can open the doors to Greece and Bulgaria anytime and we can put the refugees on buses ... So how will you deal with refugees if you don't get a deal?\"[264]\n\nIn an interview to the news magazine Der Spiegel, German minister of defence Ursula von der Leyen said on 11 March 2016 that the refugee crisis had made good cooperation between EU and Turkey an \"existentially important\" issue. \"Therefore it is right to advance now negotiations on Turkey's EU accession\".[265]\n\nWorking dinner between the leaders of Turkey, Germany, France and Russia in Istanbul\nIn its resolution \"The functioning of democratic institutions in Turkey\" from 22 June 2016, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe warned that \"recent developments in Turkey pertaining to freedom of the media and of expression, erosion of the rule of law and the human rights violations in relation to anti-terrorism security operations in south-east Turkey have\u00a0... raised serious questions about the functioning of its democratic institutions\".[266][267]\n\nIn January 2017, Erdo\u011fan said that the withdrawal of Turkish troops from Northern Cyprus is \"out of the question\" and Turkey will be in Cyprus \"forever\".[268]\n\nIn September 2020, Erdo\u011fan declared his government's support for Azerbaijan following a major conflict between Armenian and Azeri forces over a disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh.[269] He dismissed demands for a ceasefire.[270] In 2022, Erdo\u011fan and Russian President Vladimir Putin planned for Turkey to become an energy hub for all of Europe through the TurkStream and Blue Stream gas pipelines.[271][272] In October 2023 Erdo\u011fan cancelled attendance at the third European Political Community (EPC) meeting.[273][274]\nErdo\u011fan and Russian President Vladimir Putin on 3 July 2024\n\nFinnish and Swedish NATO accession\nIn May 2022, Erdo\u011fan voiced his opposition to Finland and Sweden joining NATO, accusing the two countries of tolerating groups which Turkey classifies as terrorist organizations,[275] including the Kurdish militant groups PKK, PYD and YPG and the supporters of Fethullah G\u00fclen.[276] Following a protest in Sweden where a Quran was burned, Erdogan re-iterated that he would not support Sweden's bid to join NATO.[277] President of Finland Sauli Niinist\u00f6 visited Erdogan in Istanbul and Ankara in March 2023. During the visit, Erdogan confirmed that he supported Finnish NATO membership and declared that the Turkish parliament would confirm Finnish membership before the Turkish Presidential elections in May 2023.[278] On 23 March 2023, the Turkish parliament's foreign relations committee confirmed the Finnish NATO membership application and sent the process to the Turkish Parliament's plenary session.[279] On 1 April 2023, Erdo\u011fan confirmed and signed the Turkish Grand National Assembly's ratification of Finnish NATO membership.[280] This decision sealed Finland's entry to NATO. In June 2023, Erdo\u011fan again voiced his opposition to Sweden joining NATO.[281] \nJust prior to the NATO summit in Vilnius in July 2023, Erdo\u011fan linked Sweden's accession to NATO membership to Turkey's application for EU membership. Turkey had applied for EU membership in 1999, but talks made little progress since 2016.[282][283] In September 2023, Erdo\u011fan 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.[284] However, on 23 October 2023, Erdo\u011fan approved Sweden's pending NATO membership bid and sent the accession protocol to the Turkish Parliament for ratification.[285] Two days later, Turkey's parliamentary speaker, Numan Kurtulmu\u015f, sent a bill approving Sweden's NATO membership bid to parliament's foreign affairs committee.[286] The committee discussed the ratification on 16\u00a0November 2023, but a decision was deferred,[287] with a request for Sweden to produce a written roadmap to implement its anti-terrorism commitments.[288][289] On 26 December 2023, the Turkish parliament's foreign relations committee confirmed the Swedish NATO membership application and sent the process to the Turkish Parliament's plenary session.[290] On 25 January 2024, Erdo\u011fan formally signed and approved the Turkish parliament's decision to ratify Swedish NATO membership.[291]\nErdo\u011fan and President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen on 12 July 2023\n\nGreece\n\nThere is a long-standing dispute between Turkey and Greece in the Aegean Sea. Erdo\u011fan warned that Greece will pay a \"heavy price\" if Turkey's gas exploration vessel \u2013 in what Turkey said are disputed waters \u2013 is attacked.[292] He deemed the readmission of Greece into the military alliance NATO a mistake, claiming they were collaborating with terrorists.[293]\n\nDiaspora\n\nIn March 2017, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan stated to the Turks in Europe, \"Make not three, but five children. Because you are the future of Europe. That will be the best response to the injustices against you.\" This has been interpreted as an imperialist call for demographic warfare.[294]\n\nAccording to The Economist, Erdo\u011fan is the first Turkish leader to take the Turkish diaspora seriously, which has created friction within these diaspora communities and between the Turkish government and several of its European counterparts.[295]\n\nThe Balkans\nMeeting between leaders of Turkey, Albania, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria and Serbia in Istanbul, 10 July 2017\nIn February 2018, President Erdo\u011fan expressed Turkish support of the Republic of Macedonia's position during negotiations over the Macedonia naming dispute saying that Greece's position is wrong.[296]\n\nIn March 2018, President Erdo\u011fan 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 allegedly associated with the G\u00fclen movement.[297][298]\nErdo\u011fan with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev (middle) and Bosnian Presidency Chairman Bakir Izetbegovi\u0107, 12 July 2018\nOn 26 November 2019, an earthquake struck the Durr\u00ebs region of Albania. President Erdo\u011fan expressed his condolences.[299] and citing close Albanian-Turkish relations, he committed Turkey to reconstructing 500 earthquake destroyed homes and other civic structures in La\u00e7, Albania.[300][301][302] In Istanbul, Erdo\u011fan organised and attended a donors conference (8 December) to assist Albania that included Turkish businessmen, investors and Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama.[303]\n\nAzerbaijan\n\nIn September 2023, Azerbaijan launched a large-scale military offensive to recapture the Armenian-populated Nagorno-Karabakh. Addressing the United Nations General Assembly, Erdo\u011fan stated \"As everyone now acknowledges, Karabakh is Azerbaijani territory. Imposition of another status [to the region] will never be accepted,\" and that \"[Turkey] support[s] the steps taken by Azerbaijan\u2014with whom we act together with the motto of one nation, two states\u2014to defend its territorial integrity.\"[304] Erdo\u011fan also met with Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev in the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic.[305]\n\nUnited Kingdom\n\n\nErdo\u011fan and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer at the 2024 NATO Summit in Washington, D.C.\nIn May 2018, British Prime Minister Theresa May welcomed Erdo\u011fan to the United Kingdom for a three-day state visit. Erdo\u011fan declared that the United Kingdom is \"an ally and a strategic partner, but also a real friend. The cooperation we have is well beyond any mechanism that we have established with other partners.\"[306]\n\nIsrael\n\nErdo\u011fan during a state visit of Israeli President Isaac Herzog to Turkey, 9 March 2022\nRelations between Turkey and Israel began to normalize after Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu officially apologized for the killing of the nine Turkish activists during the 2010 Gaza flotilla raid.[307] However, in response to the 2014 Gaza War, Erdo\u011fan accused Israel of being \"more barbaric than Hitler\",[308] and conducting \"state terrorism\" and a \"genocide attempt\" against the Palestinians.[309]\n\nIn December 2017, President Erdo\u011fan issued a warning to Donald Trump, after the U.S. President acknowledged Jerusalem as Israel's capital.[310] Erdo\u011fan stated, \"Jerusalem is a red line for Muslims\", indicating that naming Jerusalem as Israel's capital would alienate Palestinians and other Muslims from the city, undermining hopes at a future capital of a Palestinian State.[311] Erdo\u011fan called Israel a \"terrorist state\".[312] Naftali Bennett dismissed the threats, claiming \"Erdo\u011fan does not miss an opportunity to attack Israel\".[311]\n\nIn April 2019, Erdo\u011fan said the West Bank belongs to Palestinians, after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would annex Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories if he is re-elected.[313]\n\nErdo\u011fan condemned the Israel\u2013UAE peace agreement, stating that Turkey was considering suspending or cutting off diplomatic relations with the United Arab Emirates in retaliation.[314]\n \nErdo\u011fan at the Gaza peace summit in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, 13 October 2025\nThe relations shifted back to normality since 2021, when the two countries started improving relations.[315] In March 2022, Israeli president Isaac Herzog visited Turkey, meeting Erdo\u011fan.[316] The two countries agreed to restore diplomatic relations in August 2022.[317]\n\nErdo\u011fan condemned the Israeli attacks in the Gaza strip during the Gaza war, saying they are a violation of human rights, which led to accusations of hypocrisy as Turkey itself severely bombed Kurdish areas at the same time, including many civilian targets.[318] Erdo\u011fan said that Israel's bombing and blockade of the Gaza Strip in retaliation for Hamas's attack was a disproportionate response amounting to a \"massacre\".[319] On 25 October 2023, Erdo\u011fan said that Hamas was not a terrorist organisation but a liberation group fighting to protect Palestinian lands and people.[320] On 15 November 2023, he condemned Israel as a \"terrorist state\" and accused it of committing genocide against the Palestinians.[321] In July 2024, Erdo\u011fan threatened to intervene militarily against Israel.[322]\n\nIn June 2025, Erdo\u011fan condemned Israeli strikes on Iran as \"state terrorism\".[323]\n\nSyrian Civil War\n\nErdo\u011fan meeting US President Barack Obama during the 2014 Wales summit in Newport, Wales\n\nDiplomatic relations between Turkey and Syria significantly deteriorated due to the Syrian civil war. Initially, while tens of thousand of Syrian refugees already crossed the border to Turkey, Turkish officials tried to convince Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to make significant reforms to alleviate the conflict and calm down the protests.[324] The last of such meetings happened on 9 August 2011, during a seven-hour meeting between Assad and Turkey's Ahmet Davuto\u011flu, giving the latter the title of 'the last European leader who visited Assad'.[325]\n\nTurkey got involved in a violent conflict with Islamic State (IS) as part of the spillover of the Syrian civil war. IS executed a series of attacks against Turkish soldiers and civilians. In an ISIS-video, where two Turkish soldiers were burned alive, Turkish President Erdo\u011fan was verbally attacked by ISIS and threatened with the destruction of Turkey.[326] Turkey joined the international military intervention against the Islamic State in 2015. The Turkish Armed Forces' Operation Euphrates Shield was aimed at IS, and areas around Jarabulus and al-Bab were conquered from IS.[327]\nIn January 2018, the Turkish military and its allies Syrian National Army and Sham Legion began Operation Olive Branch in Afrin in Northern Syria, against the Kurdish armed group YPG.[328][329] In October 2019, the United States gave the go-ahead to the 2019 Turkish offensive into north-eastern Syria, despite recently agreeing to a Northern Syria Buffer Zone. US troops in northern Syria were withdrawn from the border to avoid interference with the Turkish operation.[330] After the U.S. pullout, Turkey proceeded to attack the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria.[331] Rejecting criticism of the invasion, Erdo\u011fan claimed that NATO and European Union countries \"sided with terrorists, and all of them attacked us\".[332] Erdo\u011fan then filed a criminal complaint against French magazine Le Point after it accused him of conducting ethnic cleansing in the area.[333][334] With Erdogan's control of the media fanning local nationalism,[335] a poll by Metropoll Research found that 79% of Turkish respondents expressed support for the operation.[336]\n\nChina\n\nErdo\u011fan, Chinese President Xi Jinping and other leaders at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit on 16 September 2022\nBilateral trade between Turkey and China increased from $1\u00a0billion a year in 2002 to $27\u00a0billion annually in 2017.[337] Erdo\u011fan has stated that Turkey might consider joining the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation instead of the European Union.[338]\n\nIn 2009, Erdo\u011fan accused China of \"genocide\" against the Uyghurs in Xinjiang.[339] In 2019, the Turkish Foreign Ministry issued a statement condemning what it described as China's \"reintroduction of concentration camps in the 21st century\" and \"a great cause of shame for humanity\".[340][341] Later that year, while visiting China, Erdo\u011fan said that there were those who \"exploited\" the Uyghur issue to strain relations between China and Turkey.[342] Since then the Turkish government has largely toned down its criticisms of China's treatment of Uyghurs, and cracked down on Uyghur activists at China's behest, and has expanded deportations of Uyghurs to China.[343][344][345]\n\nJapan\n\nErdo\u011fan meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (2018)\n\nQatar blockade\n\n\n\nIn June 2017 during a speech, Erdo\u011fan called the isolation of Qatar as \"inhumane and against Islamic values\" and that \"victimising Qatar through smear campaigns serves no purpose\".[346]\n\nMyanmar\n\nIn September 2017, Erdo\u011fan condemned the persecution of Muslims in Myanmar and accused Myanmar of \"genocide\" against the Muslim minority.[347]\n\nUnited States\n\n\nErdo\u011fan and US President Donald Trump at the White House in November 2019\nErdo\u011fan in a meeting with US President Joe Biden, Turkish Foreign Minister \u00c7avuso\u011flu and US Secretary of State Blinken, October 2021\nOver time, Turkey began to look for ways to buy its own missile defence system and also to use that procurement to build up its own capacity to manufacture and sell an air and missile defence system. Turkey got serious about acquiring a missile defence system early in the first Obama administration when it opened a competition between the Raytheon Patriot PAC 2 system and systems from Europe, Russia, and even China.[348]\n\nTaking advantage of the new low in US-Turkish relations, Putin saw his chance to use an S-400 sale to Turkey, so in July 2017, he offered the air defence system to Turkey. In the months that followed, the United States warned Turkey that a S-400 purchase jeopardized Turkey's F-35 purchase. Integration of the Russian system into the NATO air defence net was also out of the question. Administration officials, including Mark Esper, warned that Turkey had to choose between the S-400 and the F-35, that they could not have both.\n\nThe S-400 deliveries to Turkey began on 12 July. On 16 July, Trump mentioned to reporters that withholding the F-35 from Turkey was unfair. Said the president, \"So what happens is we have a situation where Turkey is very good with us, very good, and we are now telling Turkey that because you have really been forced to buy another missile system, we're not going to sell you the F-35 fighter jets\".[349]\n\nThe U.S. Congress made clear on a bipartisan basis that it expected the president to sanction Turkey for buying Russian equipment.[350] Out of the F-35, Turkey considered buying Russian fifth-generation jet fighter Su-57.\n\nOn 1 August 2018, the U.S. Department of Treasury sanctioned two senior Turkish government ministers who were involved in the detention of American pastor Andrew Brunson.[351] Erdo\u011fan said that U.S. behaviour would force Turkey to look for new friends and allies.[352] The U.S.\u2013Turkey tensions appeared to be the most serious diplomatic crisis between the NATO allies in years.[353][354]\n\nErdo\u011fan and Biden at the 50th G7 summit in Italy, 14 June 2024\nTrump's former national security adviser John Bolton claimed that President Donald Trump told Erdo\u011fan he would 'take care' of the investigation against Turkey's state-owned bank Halkbank, accused of bank fraud charges and laundering up to $20\u00a0billion on behalf of Iranian entities.[355] Turkey criticized Bolton's book, saying it included misleading accounts of conversations between Trump and Erdo\u011fan.[356]\n\nIn August 2020, the former vice president and presidential candidate Joe Biden called for a new U.S. approach to the \"autocrat\" President Erdo\u011fan and support for Turkish opposition parties.[357][358] In September 2020, Biden demanded that Erdo\u011fan \"stay out\" of the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War between Azerbaijan and Armenia, in which Turkey supported the Azeris.[359]\n\nMeanwhile, Erdo\u011fan wants to realize the Zangezur corridor land route in the southern Caucasus,[360] a geopolitical corridor from Europe through Central Asia, all the way to China.[361]\n\nVenezuela\n\n\nRelations with Venezuela were strengthened with recent developments and high level mutual visits. The first official visit between the two countries at presidential level was in October 2017 when Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro visited Turkey. In December 2018, Erdo\u011fan visited Venezuela for the first time and expressed his will to build strong relations with Venezuela and expressed hope that high-level visits \"will increasingly continue\".[362]\n\nReuters reported that in 2018 23\u00a0tons of mined gold were taken from Venezuela to Istanbul.[363] In the first nine months of 2018, Venezuela's gold exports to Turkey rose from zero in the previous year to US$900\u00a0million.[364]\n\nDuring the Venezuelan presidential crisis, Erdo\u011fan voiced solidarity with Venezuela's President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro and criticized U.S. sanctions against Venezuela, saying that \"political problems cannot be resolved by punishing an entire nation.\"[365][366]\n\nFollowing the 2019 Venezuelan uprising attempt, Erdo\u011fan condemned the actions of lawmaker Juan Guaid\u00f3, tweeting \"Those who are in an effort to appoint a postmodern colonial governor to Venezuela, where the President was appointed by elections and where the people rule, should know that only democratic elections can determine how a country is governed\".[367][368]\n\nUkraine and Russian invasion of Ukraine\nSigning of the grain export deal between Turkey, Ukraine, Russia and the UN in Istanbul, 2022\nErdo\u011fan with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and UN Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres in Lviv, Ukraine, on 18 August 2022\nIn 2016, Erdo\u011fan told his Ukrainian counterpart Petro Poroshenko that Turkey would not recognize the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation; calling it \"Crimea's occupation\".[369]\n\nDuring the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Erdo\u011fan functioned as a mediator and peace broker.[370][371] On 10 March 2022, Turkey hosted a trilateral meeting with Ukraine and Russia on the margins of Antalya Diplomacy Forum, making it the first high-level talks since the invasion.[372] Following the peace talks in Istanbul on 29 March 2022, Russia decided to leave areas around Kyiv and Chernihiv.[373] On 22 July 2022, together with United Nations, Turkey brokered a deal between Russia and Ukraine about clearing the way for the export of grain from Ukrainian ports, following the 2022 food crises.[374][375] On 21 September 2022, a record-high of 215 Ukrainian soldiers, including fighters who led the defence of the Azovstal Iron and Steel Works in Mariupol, had been released in a prisoner exchange with Russia after mediation by Turkish President Erdo\u011fan.[376] As part of the agreement, the freed captives stay in Turkey until the war is over.[377]\n\nWhile Turkey has closed the Bosphorus to Russian naval reinforcements, enforced United Nations sanctions[378] and supplied Ukraine with military equipment such as Bayraktar TB2 drones and BMC Kirpi vehicles, it didn't participate in certain sanctions like closing the Turkish airspace for Russian civilians and continued the dialogue with Russian President Vladimir Putin.[379] Erdo\u011fan reiterated his stance on Crimea in 2022 saying that international law requires that Russia must return Crimea to Ukraine.[380]\n\nOn 18 February 2025, Erdo\u011fan stated that Turkey would be the \"ideal host for possible talks between Russia, Ukraine and the USA,\" arguing that Turkey is seen as a \"reliable mediator\" by both Russia and Ukraine.[381]\n\nEvents\n\nCoup d'\u00e9tat attempt\n\n\n\nOn 15 July 2016, a coup d'\u00e9tat was attempted by the military, with aims to remove Erdo\u011fan from government. By the next day, Erdo\u011fan's government managed to reassert effective control in the country.[382] Reportedly, no government official was arrested or harmed, which, among other factors, raised the suspicion of a false flag event staged by the government itself.[383][384]\n\nThe Turkish parliament was bombed by jets during the failed coup of 2016.\nErdo\u011fan, as well as other government officials, has blamed an exiled cleric, and a former ally of Erdo\u011fan, Fethullah G\u00fclen, for staging the coup attempt.[385] S\u00fcleyman Soylu, Minister of Labor in Erdo\u011fan's government, accused the US of planning a coup to oust Erdo\u011fan.[386]\n\nErdo\u011fan, as well as other high-ranking Turkish government officials, has issued repeated demands to the US to extradite G\u00fclen.[387][388]\n\nFollowing the coup attempt, there has been a significant deterioration in Turkey-US relations. European and other world leaders have expressed their concerns over the situation in Turkey, with many of them warning Erdo\u011fan not to use the coup attempt as an excuse to crack down on his opponents.[389]\n\nThe rise of ISIS and the collapse of the Kurdish peace process had led to a sharp rise in terror incidents in Turkey until 2016. Erdo\u011fan was accused by his critics of having a 'soft corner' for ISIS.[390] However, after the attempted coup, Erdo\u011fan ordered the Turkish military into Syria to combat ISIS and Kurdish militant groups.[391] Erdo\u011fan's critics have decried purges in the education system and judiciary as undermining the rule of law[392] however Erdo\u011fan supporters argue this is a necessary measure as Gulen-linked schools cheated on entrance exams, requiring a purge in the education system and of the Gulen followers who then entered the judiciary.[393][394]\n\nErdo\u011fan's plan is \"to reconstitute Turkey as a presidential system. The plan would create a centralized system that would enable him to better tackle Turkey's internal and external threats. One of the main hurdles allegedly standing in his way is Fethullah Gulen's movement ...\"[395] In the aftermath of the 2016 Turkish coup d'\u00e9tat attempt, a groundswell of national unity and consensus emerged for cracking down on the coup plotters with a National Unity rally held in Turkey that included Islamists, secularists, liberals and nationalists.[396][397] Erdo\u011fan has used this consensus to remove Gulen's followers from the bureaucracy, curtail their role in NGOs, Turkey's Ministry of Religious Affairs and the Turkish military, with 149 Generals discharged.[398] In a foreign policy shift Erdo\u011fan ordered the Turkish Armed Forces into battle in Syria and has liberated towns from IS control.[399] As relations with Europe soured over in the aftermath of the attempted coup, Erdo\u011fan developed alternative relationships with Russia,[400][401] Saudi Arabia[402] and a \"strategic partnership\" with Pakistan,[403][404] with plans to cultivate relations through free trade agreements and deepening military relations for mutual co-operation with Turkey's regional allies.[405][406][407]\n\n2023 earthquake\n\n\nOn 6 February 2023, a catastrophic earthquake struck south-central Turkey and northwestern Syria,[408] killing more than 50,000 people in Turkey during his administration.[409] The high death toll was exacerbated by collapsed buildings, many constructed under lax regulations. Post-1999 earthquake reforms introduced stricter codes, but enforcement was weak. Erdo\u011fan's government issued \"amnesties\" legalizing substandard buildings for fines, a policy he boasted about in 2019 speeches in Kahramanmara\u015f and Hatay, claiming to have \"solved\" housing issues for thousands.[410][411]\n\nDisaster and Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD), centralized under Erdo\u011fan's control since a 2017 constitutional change, faced intense scrutiny for its slow and disorganized response. AFAD, led by a theologian with no prior disaster relief experience, was criticized for sidelining NGOs, military, and experienced rescue groups like AKUT, requiring all efforts to be approved centrally.[412][413]\n\nIdeology and public image\n\n\n\nEarly during his premiership, Erdo\u011fan was praised as a role model for emerging Middle Eastern nations due to several reform packages initiated by his government which expanded religious freedoms and minority rights as part of accession negotiations with the European Union.[414] However, his government underwent several crises including the Sledgehammer coup and the Ergenekon trials, corruption scandals, accusations of media intimidation, as well as the pursuit of an increasingly polarizing political agenda; the opposition accused the government of inciting political hatred throughout the country.[415] He has also been described as having \"long championed Islamist causes\".[416]\n\nErdo\u011fanism\n\n\nThe term Erdo\u011fanism first emerged shortly after Erdo\u011fan's 2011 general election victory, where it was predominantly described as the AKP's liberal economic and conservative democratic ideals fused with Erdo\u011fan's demagoguery and cult of personality.[417]\n\nOttomanism\n\nErdo\u011fan meeting Palestinian president Abbas in Erdo\u011fan's Presidential Palace\nAs President, Erdo\u011fan has overseen a revival of Ottoman tradition,[418][419][91] greeting Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas with an Ottoman-style ceremony in the new presidential palace, with guards dressed in costumes representing founders of 16 Great Turkish Empires in history.[420] While Prime Minister of Turkey, Erdo\u011fan's AKP made references to the Ottoman era during election campaigns, such as calling their supporters 'grandsons of Ottomans' (Osmanl\u0131 torunu).[421] This proved controversial, since it was perceived to be an open attack against the republican nature of modern Turkey founded by Mustafa Kemal Atat\u00fcrk. In 2015, Erdo\u011fan made a statement in which he endorsed the old Ottoman term k\u00fclliye to refer to university campuses rather than the standard Turkish word kamp\u00fcs.[422]\n\nMany critics have thus accused Erdo\u011fan of wanting to become an Ottoman sultan and abandon the secular and democratic credentials of the Republic.[423][424][425][426] When pressed on this issue in January 2015, Erdo\u011fan denied these claims and said that he would aim to be more like Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom rather than like an Ottoman sultan.[427]\n\nIn July 2020, after the Council of State annulled the Cabinet's 1934 decision to establish the Hagia Sophia as museum and revoking the monument's status, Erdo\u011fan ordered its reclassification as a mosque.[428][429] The 1934 decree was ruled to be unlawful under both Ottoman and Turkish law as Hagia Sophia's waqf, endowed by Sultan Mehmed II, had designated the site a mosque; proponents of the decision argued the Hagia Sophia was the personal property of the sultan.[430] This redesignation is controversial, invoking condemnation from the Turkish opposition, UNESCO, the World Council of Churches, the Holy See, and many other international leaders.[431][432][433] In August 2020, he also signed the order that transferred the administration of the Chora Church to the Directorate of Religious Affairs to open it for worship as a mosque.[434] Initially converted to a mosque by the Ottomans, the building had then been designated as a museum by the government since 1934.[435][418]\n\nIn August 2020, Erdo\u011fan gave a speech saying that \"in our civilization, conquest is not occupation or looting. It is establishing the dominance of the justice that Allah commanded in the region. First of all, our nation removed the oppression from the areas that it conquered. It established justice. This is why our civilization is one of conquest. Turkey will take what is its right in the Mediterranean Sea, in the Aegean Sea, and in the Black Sea.\"[436][418] In October 2020, he made a statement before the Grand National Assembly that \"Jerusalem is ours\", referring to the period of Ottoman rule over the city and the rebuilding of its Old City by Suleiman the Magnificent.[437]\n\nIn October 2023 the first church built with government backing in Turkey's 100-year history as a post-Ottoman state was inaugurated.[438][439][440]\n\nAuthoritarianism\nErdo\u011fan has been the de facto leader of Turkey since 2002.[c][441][442][443] In the more recent years of Erdo\u011fan's rule, Turkey has experienced increasing authoritarianism, democratic backsliding, and corruption,[444][445][446] as well as expansionism, censorship, and banning of parties or dissent.[447][448][449][450][451] In response to criticism, Erdo\u011fan made a speech in May 2014 denouncing allegations of dictatorship, saying that the leader of the opposition, Kemal K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu, who was there at the speech, would not be able to \"roam the streets\" freely if he were a dictator.[452] K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu responded that political tensions would cease to exist if Erdo\u011fan stopped making his polarizing speeches for three days.[453] One observer said it was a measure of the state of Turkish democracy that Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto\u011flu could openly threaten, on 20 December 2015, that, if his party did not win the election, Turkish Kurds would endure a repeat of the era of the \"white Toros\".[454]\n\nIn April 2014, the President of the Constitutional Court, Ha\u015fim K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7, accused Erdo\u011fan of damaging the credibility of the judiciary, labelling Erdo\u011fan's attempts to increase political control over the courts as 'desperate'.[455] During the chaotic 2007 presidential election, the military issued an E-memorandum warning the government to keep within the boundaries of secularism when choosing a candidate. Regardless, Erdo\u011fan's close relations with Fethullah G\u00fclen and his Cemaat Movement allowed his government to maintain a degree of influence within the judiciary through G\u00fclen's supporters in high judicial and bureaucratic offices.[456][457] Shortly after, an alleged coup plot codenamed Sledgehammer became public and resulted in the imprisonment of 300 military officers including \u0130brahim F\u0131rt\u0131na, \u00c7etin Do\u011fan and Engin Alan. Several opposition politicians, journalists and military officers also went on trial for allegedly being part of an ultra-nationalist organization called Ergenekon.\n\nErdo\u011fan's supporters outside the White House in Washington, D.C., 16 May 2017\nBoth cases were marred by irregularities and were condemned as a joint attempt by Erdo\u011fan and G\u00fclen to curb opposition to the AKP.[458] The original Sledgehammer document containing the coup plans, allegedly written in 2003, was found to have been written using Microsoft Word 2007.[459] Despite both domestic and international calls for these irregularities to be addressed in order to guarantee a fair trial, Erdo\u011fan instead praised his government for bringing the coup plots to light.[460] When G\u00fclen publicly withdrew support and openly attacked Erdo\u011fan in late 2013, several imprisoned military officers and journalists were released, with the government admitting that the judicial proceedings were unfair.[461]\n\nWhen G\u00fclen withdrew support from the AKP government in late 2013, a government corruption scandal broke out, leading to the arrest of several family members of cabinet ministers. Erdo\u011fan accused G\u00fclen of co-ordinating a \"parallel state\" within the judiciary in an attempt to topple him from power. He then removed or reassigned several judicial officials in an attempt to remove G\u00fclen's supporters from office. Erdo\u011fan's 'purge' was widely questioned and criticized by the European Union.[462] In early 2014, a new law was passed by parliament giving the government greater control over the judiciary, which sparked public protest throughout the country. International organizations perceived the law to be a danger to the separation of powers.[463]\n\nSeveral judicial officials removed from their posts said that they had been removed due to their secularist credentials. The political opposition accused Erdo\u011fan of not only attempting to remove G\u00fclen supporters, but supporters of Mustafa Kemal Atat\u00fcrk's principles as well, in order to pave the way for increased politicization of the judiciary. Several family members of Erdo\u011fan's ministers who had been arrested as a result of the 2013 corruption scandal were released, and a judicial order to question Erdo\u011fan's son Bilal Erdo\u011fan was annulled.[464] Controversy erupted when it emerged that many of the newly appointed judicial officials were actually AKP supporters.[465] \u0130slam \u00c7i\u00e7ek, a judge who ejected the cases of five ministers' relatives accused of corruption, was accused of being an AKP supporter and an official investigation was launched into his political affiliations.[466] On 1 September 2014, the courts dissolved the cases of 96 suspects, which included Bilal Erdo\u011fan.[467]\n\nOn 25 September 2025, during a bilateral visit, Erdo\u011fan was described by US president Donald Trump as \"highly opinionated\" and \"a tough one\", adding, \"Usually, I don't like opinionated people, but I always like this one.\" Trump also remarked that Erdo\u011fan \"knows about rigged elections better than anybody,\" drawing attention due to longstanding criticisms of Erdo\u011fan's leadership style, which has been perceived by critics as increasingly autocratic.[468][469][470]\n\nSuppression of dissent\n\nAn NTV news van covered in anti-AKP protest graffiti in response to their initial lack of coverage of the Gezi Park protests in 2013\n\nErdo\u011fan has been criticized for his politicization of the media, especially after the 2013 protests. The opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) alleged that over 1,863 journalists lost their jobs due to their anti-government views in 12 years of AKP rule.[471] Opposition politicians have also alleged that intimidation in the media is due to the government's attempt to restructure the ownership of private media corporations. Journalists from the Cihan News Agency and the G\u00fclenist Zaman newspaper were repeatedly barred from attending government press conferences or asking questions.[472] Several opposition journalists such as Soner Yal\u00e7\u0131n were controversially arrested as part of the Ergenekon trials and Sledgehammer coup investigation.[473] Veli A\u011fbaba, a CHP politician, has called the AKP the 'biggest media boss in Turkey'.[471]\n\nIn 2015, 74 US senators sent a letter to US Secretary of State, John Kerry, to state their concern over what they saw as deviations from the basic principles of democracy in Turkey and oppressions of Erdo\u011fan over media.[474]\n\nNotable cases of media censorship occurred during the 2013 anti-government protests, when the mainstream media did not broadcast any news regarding the demonstrations for three days after they began. The lack of media coverage was symbolised by CNN International covering the protests while CNN T\u00fcrk broadcast a documentary about penguins at the same time.[475] The Radio and Television Supreme Council (RT\u00dcK) controversially issued a fine to pro-opposition news channels including Halk TV and Ulusal Kanal for their coverage of the protests, accusing them of broadcasting footage that could be morally, physically and mentally destabilizing to children.[476] Erdo\u011fan was criticized for not responding to the accusations of media intimidation, and caused international outrage after telling a female journalist (Amberin Zaman of The Economist) to know her place and calling her a 'shameless militant' during his 2014 presidential election campaign.[477] While the 2014 presidential election was not subject to substantial electoral fraud, Erdo\u011fan was again criticized for receiving disproportionate media attention in comparison to his rivals. The British newspaper The Times commented that between 2 and 4 July, the state-owned media channel TRT gave 204 minutes of coverage to Erdo\u011fan's campaign and less than a total of 3 minutes to both his rivals.[478]\nOpposition politicians Selahattin Demirta\u015f and Figen Y\u00fcksekda\u011f had been arrested on terrorism charges.\n\nErdo\u011fan also tightened controls over the Internet, signing into law a bill which allows the government to block websites without prior court order on 12 September 2014.[479] His government blocked Twitter and YouTube in late March 2014 following the release of a recording of a conversation between him and his son Bilal, where Erdo\u011fan allegedly warned his family to 'nullify' all cash reserves at their home amid the 2013 corruption scandal.[480] Erdo\u011fan has undertaken a media campaign that attempts to portray the presidential family as frugal and simple-living; their palace electricity-bill is estimated at $500,000 per month.[481]\n\nIn 2016, a waiter was arrested for insulting Erdo\u011fan by allegedly saying \"If Erdo\u011fan comes here, I will not even serve tea to him.\".[482]\n\nIn November 2016, the Turkish government[236] blocked access to social media in all of Turkey[483] as well as sought to completely block Internet access for the citizens in the southeast of the country.[484] Since the 2016 coup attempt, authorities arrested or imprisoned more than 90,000 Turkish citizens.[485]\n\nLawsuits\nIn February 2015, a 13-year-old was charged by a prosecutor after allegedly insulting Erdo\u011fan on Facebook.[486][487] Between 2016[488] and 2023 there were trials for insulting the president for having compared Erdogan to Gollum, a fictional character of J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings.[489] In May 2016, former Miss Turkey model Merve B\u00fcy\u00fcksara\u00e7 was sentenced to more than a year in prison for allegedly insulting the president.[490][491][492] Between 2014 and 2019, 128,872 investigations were launched for insulting the president and prosecutors opened 27,717 criminal cases.[493]\n\nIn 2009, Turkish sculptor Mehmet Aksoy created the Statue of Humanity in Kars to promote reconciliation between Turkey and Armenia. When visiting the city in 2011, Erdo\u011fan deemed the statue a \"freak\", and months later it was demolished.[494] Aksoy sued Erdo\u011fan for \"moral indemnities\", although his lawyer said that his statement was a critique rather than an insult. In March 2015, a judge ordered Erdo\u011fan to pay 10,000 liras.[495]\n\nZiya G\u00f6kalp\nIn 2019, Erdo\u011fan once again publicly recited Ziya G\u00f6kalp's Soldier's Prayer poem, as he had done in 1997. Historian Hans-Lukas Kieser argues that these recitations signal Erdo\u011fan's affinity with G\u00f6kalp's pre-1923 ideal of \"a modern, leader-led Islamic-Turkish state\", and he associates this with a vision extending beyond the boundaries of the Treaty of Lausanne.[496]\n\nWomen\nIn 2021, Erdo\u011fan withdrew Turkey from the Council of Europe's Istanbul Convention on violence against women and has attacked groups that defend women.[497][498]\n\nViews on minorities\n\nLGBT\nIn 2002, Erdo\u011fan said that \"homosexuals must be legally protected within the framework of their rights and freedoms. From time to time, we do not find the treatment they get on some television screens humane\", he said.[499][500][501] However, in 2017 Erdo\u011fan has said that empowering LGBT people in Turkey was \"against the values of our nation\".[502]\n\nIn 2020, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Turkey's top Muslim scholar and President of Religious Affairs, Ali Erba\u015f, said in a Friday Ramadan announcement that the country condemns homosexuality because it \"brings illness\", insinuating that same sex relations were responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic.[503] Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan backed Erba\u015f, saying that what Erba\u015f \"said was totally right.\"[504] Starting from 2023, Erdo\u011fan began openly speaking against LGBT people, openly saying that his Coalition \"are against the LGBT\", and accusing the Turkish opposition of being LGBT.[505]\n\nIn 2023, Erdogan blamed LGBTQ+ people for \"undermining family values\" in Turkey and called his political opponents \"gays\" in a derogatory manner. Third-party sources criticized this; seeing it as a bid to distract the public from the ruling party's failings\u2014particularly on the country's economy; according to these sources, by targeting Turkey's minority groups, he rallied his base amid the country's ongoing economic troubles to raise the prospects of winning the 2023 general elections in his country, which were seen as critical for his nearly 20-year rule.[506][507][508] At a campaign rally in the same year Erdo\u011fan stated, \"We are against the LGBT\".[498]\n\nJews\nWhile Erdo\u011fan has declared that the antisemitism is an \"evil crime\" that cannot be legitimized,[509][510][511] he has been accused of invoking antisemitic tropes in public statements, particularly those regarding Israel.[512][513] In 2009, regarding the 2008\u20132009 Gaza War, Erdo\u011fan said Israelis \"know very well how to kill\" and suggested that Israel controls the media. In 2010, following the Gaza flotilla raid, he repeated the suggestion of Israel dominating the world media. The Turkish historian R\u0131fat Bali characterized these remarks as antisemitic and as inflammatory rhetoric well beyond legitimate criticism of Israel.[512] In 2021, Erdo\u011fan accused Israel of \"terrorism\" against the Palestinians and said, \"they kill children who are five or six years old. They only are satisfied by sucking their blood\", which the Anti-Defamation League and others cited as an instance of blood libel.[513][514][515]\n\nArmenian genocide\nIn 2011, Erdo\u011fan called the 33-meter-tall (108\u00a0ft) Monument to Humanity, a statue dedicated to fostering Armenian and Turkish relations, \"freakishly ugly\" (Turkish: ucube) and ordered it to be demolished. Erdo\u011fan was subsequently fined by a Turkish judge for insulting the work and the creator was compensated due to the \"violation of the freedom of expression\".\n\nErdo\u011fan has continued Turkey's policy of Armenian genocide denial.[516] During his premiership, he said that Turkey would only recognise the mass killings of Armenians during World War I as a genocide after a thorough investigation by a joint Turkish-Armenian commission consisting of historians, archaeologists, political scientists and other experts.[517][518][519] In 2005, Erdo\u011fan and the main opposition party leader Deniz Baykal wrote a letter to President of Armenia Robert Kocharyan, proposing the creation of a joint Turkish-Armenian commission.[520] Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian rejected the offer, which he asserted was insincere: \"This issue cannot be considered at historical level with Turks, who themselves politicized the problem.\"[521][522]\n\nIn 2008, Erdo\u011fan criticised I Apologise, a campaign by Turkish intellectuals to recognise the genocide: \"I neither accept nor support this campaign. We did not commit a crime, therefore we do not need to apologise\u00a0... It will not have any benefit other than stirring up trouble, disturbing our peace and undoing the steps which have been taken.\"[523] In 2010, Erdo\u011fan threatened to deport 100,000 Armenians from Turkey after the US House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Swedish Riksdag voted in favour of recognition.[524]\n\nIn 2011, Erdo\u011fan called for the destruction of the 33-meter-tall (108\u00a0ft) Monument to Humanity, a statue by Mehmet Aksoy in Kars intended to represent reconciliation between Turkey and Armenia. Erdo\u011fan condemned the monument as \"freakish\" and a \"monstrosity\", and argued it overshadowed other Kars landmarks, such as the tomb of an 11th-century Islamic scholar. The Kars municipal assembly subsequently approved a motion to demolish it on the basis that it was built illegally in a protected area.[525][526] In 2015, Erdo\u011fan was 10,000 Turkish lira for insulting Aksoy.[526]\n\nOn 23 April 2014, Erdo\u011fan released a statement in nine languages (including two dialects of Armenian) for Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day. Though he did not recognise the genocide, he offered condolences for the mass killings and described them as Armenia and Turkey's shared pain: \"Having experienced events which had inhumane consequences \u2013 such as relocation \u2013 during the First World War, (it) should not prevent Turks and Armenians from establishing compassion and mutually humane attitudes among one another.\"[527]\n\nIn April 2015, Pope Francis, during a special mass in St. Peter's Basilica marking the genocide's centenary, described it as \"the first genocide of the 20th century\". In protest, Erdo\u011fan recalled Turkey's ambassador to the Vatican and summoned the Vatican's ambassador to Turkey to express \"disappointment\" at what he called a discriminatory message.[528] When the European Parliament held a vote to recognise the genocide, Erdo\u011fan said it would \"go in one ear and out from the other\" and that Turkey does not \"carry a stain or a shadow like genocide\".[529] US President Barack Obama called for a \"full, frank and just acknowledgement of the facts\", but stopped short of labelling it \"genocide\", despite a campaign promise to do so.[530]\n\nIn April 2021, Erdo\u011fan condemned US President Joe Biden's recognition of the Armenian genocide as \"groundless\", \"unfair\" and \"destructive\", accusing Biden of bowing to \"pressure from radical Armenian groups and anti-Turkish circles\". He invoked the destruction of Native American peoples by the US to accuse Biden of hypocrisy.[516] In June 2026, he repudiated Israel's recognition of the Armenian genocide as \"slander\" designed to distract from the Gaza genocide and denied that Turkey's history includes colonialism, genocide, and oppression.[531]\n\nClimate change\nErdogan is considering climate change a threat to humanity, comparable to global wars and pandemics. He think that new technologies are accelerating production and excessive consumption hurt nature. He emphasised Turkey\u2019s environmental initiatives, like \u201cZero Waste\u201d.[532]\n\nPersonal life\nErdo\u011fan (centre) with his spouse Emine (centre-right), granddaughter Canan Ayb\u00fcke (centre-left), and son-in-law Sel\u00e7uk Bayraktar (left) at Teknofest festival in Azerbaijan (2022)\n\nErdo\u011fan married Emine Erdo\u011fan (n\u00e9e G\u00fclbaran; b. 1955, Siirt) on 4 July 1978.[533] They have two sons, Ahmet Burak (b. 1979) and Necmettin Bilal (b. 1981), and two daughters, Esra (b. 1983) and S\u00fcmeyye (b. 1985).[533] His father, Ahmet Erdo\u011fan, died in 1988 and his mother, Tenzile Erdo\u011fan, died in 2011 at the age of 87.[534]\n\nErdo\u011fan has a brother, Mustafa (b. 1958), and a sister, Vesile (b. 1965).[535] From his father's first marriage to Havuli Erdo\u011fan (d. 1980), he had two half-brothers: Mehmet (1926\u20131988) and Hasan (1929\u20132006).[536]\n\nElectoral history\n\n\n\nYear\nOffice\nType\nParty\nMain opponent\nParty\nVotes for Erdo\u011fan or his party\nResult\n\nTotal\n%\nP.\n\u00b1%\n\n1984\nMember of Parliament\nNational\n\nRP\nH\u00fcsn\u00fc Do\u011fan\n\nANAP\n31,247\n8.57\n5th\nN/A\nLost\n\n1989\nMayor of Beyo\u011flu\nLocal\n\nRP\nH\u00fcseyin Aslan\n\nSHP\n21,706\n22.83\n2nd\n+17.71\nLost\n\n1991\nMember of Parliament\nNational\n\nRP\nBahattin Y\u00fccel\n\nANAP\n70,555\n20.01\n5th\n+12.69\nLost\n\n1994\nMayor of Istanbul\nLocal\n\nRP\n\u0130lhan Kesici\n\nANAP\n973,704\n25.19\n1st\n+14.74\nWon\n\n2002\nMember of Parliament\nNational\n\nAK Party\nDeniz Baykal\n\nCHP\n10,808,229\n34.28\n1st\n+34.28\nWon\n\n2004\nParty leader\nLocal\n\nAK Party\nDeniz Baykal\n\nCHP\n13,448,587\n41.67\n1st\n+41.67\nWon\n\n2007\nMember of Parliament\nNational\n\nAK Party\nDeniz Baykal\n\nCHP\n16,327,291\n46.58\n1st\n+12.30\nWon\n\n2009\nParty leader\nLocal\n\nAK Party\nDeniz Baykal\n\nCHP\n15,353,553\n38.39\n1st\n-3.28\nWon\n\n2011\nMember of Parliament\nNational\n\nAK Party\nKemal K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu\n\nCHP\n21,399,082\n49.83\n1st\n+3.25\nWon\n\n2014\nParty leader\nLocal\n\nAK Party\nKemal K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu\n\nCHP\n17,802,976\n42.87\n1st\n+4.48\nWon\n\n2014\nPresident\nNational\n\nInd.\nEkmeleddin \u0130hsano\u011flu\n\nInd.\n21,000,143\n51.79\n1st\nN/A\nWon\n\n2018\nNational\n\nAK Party\nMuharrem \u0130nce\n\nCHP\n26,330,823\n52.59\n1st\n+0.80\nWon\n\n2019\nParty leader\nLocal\n\nAK Party\nKemal K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu\n\nCHP\n19,766,640\n42.55\n1st\n-0.32\nWon\n\n2023\nPresident\nNational\n\nAK Party\nKemal K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu\n\nCHP\n27,725,131\n52.16\n1st\n-0.43\nWon\n\n2024\nParty leader\nLocal\n\nAK Party\n\u00d6zg\u00fcr \u00d6zel\n\nCHP\n16,339,771\n35.49\n2nd\n-7.06\nLost\n\n\n\n\nHonors, awards and recognitions\n\nErdo\u011fan has received numerous national and international awards and honors throughout his political career. These awards and honors reflect his contributions to international relations, cultural dialogue and humanitarian efforts.[citation needed] Internationally, he has been recognized with awards such as the Medal \"In Commemoration of the 1000th Anniversary of Kazan\" from Russia, the Nishan-e-Pakistan from Pakistan, and the Order of the Republic from Moldova. He has also been awarded the Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold from Belgium, the Grand Cordon of the National Order of the Ivory Coast and the Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit from Guinea.\n\nDomestically, Erdo\u011fan has received accolades including the Outstanding Service award from the Turkish Red Crescent and the Dialogue Between Cultures Award from the President of Tatarstan. Additionally, he has been awarded the King Faisal International Prize for \"service to Islam\" and the United Nations\u2013HABITAT award in memorial of Rafik Hariri.\n\nBibliography\n\n\nBooks\nErdo\u011fan, Recep Tayyip (17 November 2012). 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