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Extracted Attributes

• Born

  1954-02-26

• Education

  Marmara University (Aksaray Academy of Economic and Commercial Sciences)

• Full Name

  Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

• Current Office

  President of Turkey

• Place of Birth

  Istanbul, Turkey

• Political Party

  Justice and Development Party (AKP)

• Previous Offices

  Prime Minister of Turkey (2003-2014), Mayor of Istanbul (1994-1998)

• Economic Indicators

  High inflation and depreciation of the Turkish lira

Timeline

• Born in Beyoğlu, Istanbul. (Source: Wikipedia)

  1954-02-26

• Elected Mayor of Istanbul. (Source: Wikipedia)

  1994-03-27

• Convicted for inciting religious hatred and banned from politics. (Source: Wikipedia)

  1998-01-01

• Released from prison. (Source: Wikipedia)

  1999-01-01

• Co-founded the Justice and Development Party (AKP). (Source: Wikipedia)

  2001-08-14

• Became the 25th Prime Minister of Turkey. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2003-03-14

• Initiated peace negotiations with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). (Source: Wikipedia)

  2012-12-01

• Inaugurated as the first directly elected President of Turkey. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2014-08-28

• Transitioned Turkey to a presidential system with expanded executive powers. (Source: Web Search (Britannica))

  2018-07-09

• Temporarily blocked Finland and Sweden from joining NATO. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2022-05-01

• Brokered the Black Sea Grain Initiative between Russia and Ukraine. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2022-07-22

• Oversaw the arrest and disqualification of Istanbul mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu from the 2028 election. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2025-01-01

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (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, Turkey has experienced increasing authoritarianism, democratic backsliding and suppression of dissent under Erdoğan's rule. Erdoğan was born in Beyoğlu, 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 Beyoğlu district chair in 1984 and Istanbul chair in 1985. Following the 1994 local elections, Erdoğan was elected mayor of Istanbul. In 1998 he was convicted for inciting religious hatred and banned from politics after reciting a poem by Ziya Gökalp that compared mosques to barracks and the faithful to an army. Erdoğan was released from prison in 1999 and formed the AKP, abandoning openly Islamist policies. Erdoğan 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. Erdoğan 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–Turkish conflict, negotiations which ended three years later. In 2014, Erdoğan became the country's first directly elected president. Erdoğan's presidency has been marked by democratic backsliding and a shift towards a more authoritarian style of government. His economic policies have led to high inflation rates and the depreciation of the value of the Turkish lira. He has intervened in the ongoing conflicts in Syria and Libya, launched operations against the Islamic State, Syrian Democratic Forces and Assad's forces leading to the fall of the Assad regime, and has made threats against Greece. 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, Erdoğan temporarily blocked Finland and Sweden from joining NATO. Erdoğan 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, Erdoğan oversaw the arrest of Istanbul mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu and his subsequent disqualification from the upcoming 2028 presidential election, for which he was considered the opposition front-runner, leading to ongoing widespread protests.

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• Recep Tayyip Erdoğan - Wikipedia

  Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (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 "Justice and Development Party (Turkey)") (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, Turkey has experienced increasing authoritarianism, democratic backsliding and suppression of dissent under Erdoğan's rule. [...] In 2014, Erdoğan became the country's first directly elected president. Erdoğan's presidency has been marked by democratic backsliding and a shift towards a more authoritarian style of government. His economic policies have led to high inflation rates and the depreciation of the value "Turkish economic crisis (2018–current)") of the Turkish lira. He has intervened in the ongoing conflicts in Syria and Libya "Turkish intervention in Libya (2020–present)"), launched operations against the Islamic State, Syrian Democratic Forces and Assad's forces leading to the fall of the Assad regime, and has made threats against Greece. He oversaw the transformation of Turkey's parliamentary system into a presidential system, introducing term limits and expanding executive powers, and Turkey's migrant [...] Erdoğan was born in Beyoğlu, 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 Beyoğlu district chair in 1984 and Istanbul chair in 1985. Following the 1994 local elections, Erdoğan was elected mayor of Istanbul. In 1998 he was convicted for inciting religious hatred and banned from politics after reciting a poem by Ziya Gökalp that compared mosques to barracks and the faithful to an army. Erdoğan was released from prison in 1999 and formed the AKP, abandoning openly Islamist policies.

• Recep Tayyip Erdogan | President, Protests, Religion, & Facts

  Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (born February 26, 1954, Istanbul, Turkey) is the two-decade-long ruler of Turkey (Türkiye), who served first as prime minister (2003–14) and later as president (2014– ), during which time he successfully pushed constitutional reform for a presidential system. Although Erdoğan came to power as a liberalizer seeking to enact greater political, social, and economic freedom, the gradual entrenchment of his Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi; AKP) allowed him to crack down on dissent and, following the expansion of presidential powers in 2018, he became regarded as authoritarian and unwilling to relinquish power. ## Political rise [...] Quick Facts Born: : February 26, 1954, Istanbul, Turkey (age 71) Title / Office: : prime minister (2003-2014), Turkey See all related content [...] Erdoğan had been associated with political Islam since high school, where he became known as a charismatic orator in its cause. While attending Marmara University he met Necmettin Erbakan, a veteran Islamist politician, and Erdoğan became active in parties led by Erbakan, despite the ban in Turkey on religiously based political parties. In 1994 Erdoğan was elected mayor of Istanbul on the ticket of the Welfare Party. The election of the first-ever Islamist to the mayoralty shook the secularist establishment, but Erdoğan proved to be a competent and canny manager. He yielded to protests against the building of a mosque in the city’s central square but banned the sale of alcoholic beverages in city-owned cafés. In 1998 he was convicted for inciting religious hatred after reciting a poem

• Erdogan: Turkey's all-powerful leader of 20 years - BBC News

  First as prime minister from 2003 and then as directly elected president since 2014, Recep Tayyip Erdogan has flexed Turkey's muscles as a regional power, championed Islamist causes and been quick to outmanoeuvre political opposition. Although he is the head of a Nato country, he has positioned himself as a broker in Russia's war in Ukraine and kept Sweden waiting in its bid to join the Western defensive alliance. His muscular diplomacy has riled allies in Europe and beyond. He has polarised his country but President Erdogan is a proven election winner. His supporters call him reis - "chief". Accusing his opponents of treating Turkey's electorate with contempt and failing to win them over he declared: "As 85 million, we will protect our ballot, our will and our future." [...] BBC News # Erdogan: Turkey's all-powerful leader of 20 years Share page About sharing Related topics Turkish elections 2023 By Paul Kirby BBC News From humble beginnings, Recep Tayyip Erdogan has grown into a political giant, leading Turkey for 22 years and reshaping his country more than any leader since Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the revered father of the modern republic. Despite being buffeted by a series of crises, he still came out on top in the 2023 presidential race, maintaining his grip on power. But he has been criticised for his increasingly repressive rule over the past years - removing checks on his own power and sidelining opponents through the court system. [...] ## Rise to power Born in February 1954, Recep Tayyip Erdogan grew up the son of a coastguard, on Turkey's Black Sea coast. When he was 13, his father decided to move to Istanbul, hoping to give his five children a better upbringing. The young Erdogan sold lemonade and sesame buns to earn extra cash. He attended an Islamic school before obtaining a degree in management from Istanbul's Marmara University - and playing professional football. In the 1970s and 80s, he was active in Islamist circles, joining Necmettin Erbakan's pro-Islamic Welfare Party. As the party grew in popularity in the 1990s, Erdogan was elected as its candidate for mayor of Istanbul in 1994 and ran the city for the next four years.

• Portrait of Recep Tayyip Erdogan - President of the Republic of Turkey

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan was born in 1953 in Kasimpasa, a popular district of Istanbul, located below Pera, which is the Istanbul equivalent of the Parisian district of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. The inhabitants of Kasimpasa are religious conservatives, while Pera is home to a cosmopolitan elite. The family of the young Recep Tayyip comes from a town near the Black Sea (Rize), with which the Erdogans maintain a close relationship. They are a pious family, neither very well-off (the father is captain of a ship on the Bosporus) nor very poor either, despite what the President of Turkey’s hagiographers tend to suggest. [...] Author François Livet High-ranking French civil servant After Russia’s Putin and Central Europe’s Orban, here comes Erdogan, the master of Turkey, i.e. a country that lies at the crossroads between the European, the Slavic and the Eastern worlds. His rise to power too results from elections, yet he governs in absolute terms. How can one explain this "authoritarian drift", according to the traditional expression used to characterize the evolution of his style of government for several years now? We asked a high-ranking French civil servant familiar with Turkey to enlighten us, under a pseudonym. Michel Duclos, Special Advisor, editor of this series. [...] Michel Duclos, Special Advisor, editor of this series. June 2018: Recep Tayyip Erdogan (RTE), who had been leading Turkey for 15 years, was re-elected President of the Republic from the first round. His party, the AKP, won the parliamentary elections. He will be able, thanks to his alliance with the ultranationalists, to dominate Parliament.

• Early life and career of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan - Wikipedia

  Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the 25th prime minister and 12th president of Turkey, was born on 26 February 1954, in Istanbul, Turkey. ## Childhood years and youth [edit] Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was born in Kasımpaşa, a poor neighborhood of Istanbul. His family was originally from Rize, a conservative town on the eastern coast of the Black Sea, and returned there when Erdoğan was still an infant, coming back to Istanbul again when he was 13. He spent those years attending Istanbul İmam Hatip school, and selling watermelons, lemonade, and simit (sesame rings) on the city's streets to make extra bills. [...] | 12th President of Turkey (2014–present) 25th Prime Minister of Turkey (2003–2014) Member of the 23rd and 24th Parliament Istanbul 1st electoral district "Istanbul (1st electoral district)") (2007–2011; 2011–2015) Member of the 22nd Parliament Siirt electoral district "Siirt (electoral district)") (2002–2007) 1st and 4th "Justice and Development Party (Turkey)") Leader of the Justice and Development Party (2001–2014; 2017–present) 28th Mayor of Istanbul (1994–1998) | [...] While studying business administration at what is today Marmara University's Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences and playing semi-professional football, Erdoğan also engaged in politics by joining the National Turkish Student Union, an anti-communist action group. In 1976, he became the head of a local youth branch of the Islamist National Salvation Party (MSP), led by Necmettin Erbakan, who would later go on to found the Felicity Party. This was the beginning of Erdoğan's long career in politics. ## Mayor of Istanbul [edit]

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