Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
President of Turkey since 2014
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| February 18 2025 | Stated that Turkey would be an 'ideal host' for potential talks between Russia, Ukraine, and the USA, emphasizing Turkey's position as a 'reliable mediator' for both countries. |
| February 10 2025 | Received honorary doctorate from University of Malaya, a future event. |
| March 8 2024 | Declared his intention to retire once his presidential term ends in 2028. |
| January 25 2024 | Erdoğan formally signed and approved the Turkish parliament's decision to ratify Swedish NATO membership. |
| 2023 | Erdoğan openly spoke against LGBT people, declaring his Coalition 'are against the LGBT' and accusing the Turkish opposition of being LGBT. He blamed LGBTQ+ people for 'undermining family values' and used derogatory language towards his political opponents. |
| 2023 | Target year for Turkey's '2023 vision', marking the centennial of the Turkish Republic with strategic goals for domestic and foreign policy transformation |
| October 2023 | Inaugurated the first church built with government backing in Turkey since the end of the Ottoman state. |
| October 23 2023 | Erdoğan approved Sweden's pending NATO membership bid and sent the accession protocol to the Turkish Parliament for ratification. |
| September 2023 | Erdoğan announced a potential rupture in Turkey's relations with the European Union during the EU membership process. |
| June 3 2023 | Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was inaugurated for his third term as President of Turkey in a ceremony held at the Presidential Complex in Ankara. This marked his continued leadership of the country following the 2023 presidential election. |
| May 28 2023 | Won the presidential election runoff against Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, receiving 52.18% of the vote. |
| May 28 2023 | Erdoğan won the presidential election run-off, securing 52.18 percent of the vote after 99.4% of votes were counted, and was declared mathematically elected by the Supreme Election Council. |
| May 14 2023 | First round of the Turkish presidential election held, with Erdoğan and his rival Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu failing to secure a majority, leading to the first run-off in Turkish election history. |
| May 2 2023 | By this date, Erdoğan's campaign had received approximately 32 hours of airtime on the state-run TRT, compared to only 32 minutes given to his main political rival Kilicdaroglu, highlighting the government's media control. |
| April 29 2023 | Erdoğan and his family attended the Istanbul Airshow, which helped quell speculation about a potential heart attack from the earlier livestream incident. |
| April 25 2023 | During a live interview broadcast on Kanal 7 and Ülke TV, the livestream was suddenly cut. Erdoğan later attributed the interruption to a stomach bug, and several campaign events were subsequently canceled, sparking rumors about his health. |
| April 14 2023 | Turgut Kazan, a former President of the Istanbul Bar Association, appealed to the European Court of Human Rights challenging Erdoğan's candidacy. |
| April 6 2023 | The 'Table of Six' opposition alliance announced they would not agree to snap elections after this date. |
| April 4 2023 | The Supreme Electoral Council (YSK) ruled that Erdoğan could stand for the 2023 presidential elections, reasoning that the 2014 election did not count as a full term. |
| April 1 2023 | Erdoğan confirmed and signed the Turkish Grand National Assembly's ratification of Finnish NATO membership, sealing Finland's entry to NATO. |
| March 23 2023 | The Turkish parliament's foreign relations committee confirmed Finnish NATO membership application and sent the process to parliament's plenary session. |
| February 6 2023 | A catastrophic earthquake struck south-central Turkey and northwestern Syria, killing more than 50,000 people during Erdoğan's administration. |
| January 2023 | Erdoğan specifically mentioned 14 May 2023 as the election date, drawing a symbolic connection to 14 May 1950, when Adnan Menderes became prime minister after Turkey's first multiparty elections. |
| January 2023 | Erdoğan began speculating about potential snap elections before June 2023, with the AK Party mentioning potential dates of 16 April, 30 April, and 14 May. |
| 2022 | Reiterated Turkey's stance that Russia must return Crimea to Ukraine in accordance with international law. |
| 2022 | Responds to the Russian invasion of Ukraine by closing the Bosphorus to Russian naval reinforcements, brokers a grain export deal between Russia and Ukraine, and mediates a prisoner exchange. |
| December 2022 | Erdogan announced that the term from 2023 onwards would be his last presidential term. |
| September 21 2022 | Mediated a prisoner exchange resulting in the release of 215 Ukrainian soldiers, including Azovstal Iron and Steel Works defenders, with the freed captives to remain in Turkey until the war's end. |
| June 2022 | Launched his campaign for the 2023 presidential election, which was contested by the opposition for potentially violating constitutional term limits. |
| June 9 2022 | Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced his presidential candidacy during a speech in Izmir, located by the Aegean Sea. In the same speech, he confirmed the elections would be held in June 2023 and challenged the opposition Nation Alliance to announce their candidate. |
| May 2022 | Erdoğan voiced opposition to Finland and Sweden joining NATO, accusing them of tolerating groups Turkey considers terrorist organizations. |
| April 2022 | Recep Tayyip Erdoğan launched his presidential campaign as the candidate of the People's Alliance, representing the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP). |
| March 29 2022 | After peace talks in Istanbul, Russia decided to withdraw from areas around Kyiv and Chernihiv. |
| March 10 2022 | Turkey hosted a trilateral meeting with Ukraine and Russia at the Antalya Diplomacy Forum, marking the first high-level talks since the Russian invasion of Ukraine. |
| February 2022 | Devlet Bahceli of the MHP called for legal changes to enable Erdoğan's third candidacy. |
| February 2022 | Parliamentary Speaker Mustafa Sentop claimed Erdoğan could run for a third presidency despite constitutional term limits. |
| 2020 | During the COVID-19 pandemic, Erdoğan publicly supported Ali Erbaş's controversial statement condemning homosexuality and suggesting same-sex relations were responsible for the pandemic. |
| October 2020 | Made a statement to the Grand National Assembly claiming 'Jerusalem is ours', referencing the period of Ottoman rule. |
| September 2020 | Erdoğan declared government support for Azerbaijan in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and dismissed demands for a ceasefire. |
| August 2020 | Joe Biden called for a new U.S. approach to President Erdoğan, describing him as an 'autocrat' and suggesting support for Turkish opposition parties. |
| August 2020 | Signed an order transferring the administration of the Chora Church to the Directorate of Religious Affairs to open it for worship as a mosque. |
| August 2020 | Gave a speech emphasizing the Ottoman concept of conquest as establishing justice, declaring Turkey's intent to assert its rights in the Mediterranean, Aegean, and Black Seas. |
| July 2020 | Ordered the reclassification of Hagia Sophia from a museum to a mosque after the Council of State annulled the 1934 decision establishing it as a museum. |
| January 2020 | Wikipedia access was restored in Turkey following a court ruling. |
| January 2020 | Erdoğan acknowledged Turkey's child marriage problem and his party made another attempt to reintroduce an amnesty law for statutory rapists who marry their victims, which was strongly opposed by activists who argued it would legitimize statutory rape and child marriage. |
| 2019 | Erdoğan reiterated his 'The world is bigger than five' doctrine during his speech at the seventy-fourth session of the United Nations General Assembly, continuing to challenge the existing power structure of the UN Security Council. |
| June 27 2019 | Awarded honorary doctorate by Mukogawa Women's University. |
| 2018 | Turkey experienced a significant currency and debt crisis triggered by excessive current account deficit, foreign-currency debt, and Erdoğan's unorthodox economic policies. Economist Paul Krugman criticized the regime's leadership and lack of credible economic management during the crisis. |
| 2018 | Erdoğan won the presidential election with 52.59% of the popular vote, defeating Muharrem İnce and other candidates. |
| August 1 2018 | Following US Treasury sanctions on Turkish government ministers, Erdoğan stated that the US behavior would force Turkey to look for new friends and allies. |
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