Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

Sultan

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was born on February 26, 1954, in Istanbul, but his origins are from the northern Turkish city of Reza on the Black Sea.

He studied at the Istanbul high school for imams and preachers and graduated in 1973. He also obtained a secondary diploma from Ayoub after passing the exams for additional subjects. Erdoğan joined the Faculty of Economic and Commercial Sciences at Marmara University and graduated in 1981.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Mr. Erdogan has known his interest in the social and political life of his youth since his early youth; he learned the spirit of teamwork and discipline in teamwork between 1969 and 1982, when football was a hobby for himself. In the same period, he began to pay attention to his country's issues and social problems, because he was a young man with a deep thought and a long view. He realized that his great benefit to his society and his country was only by entering into political life.

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan began to play a prominent role in the student organization of the National Union of Turkish Students and Youth Organizations. In 1976, he was elected Chairman of the Youth Organization of the National Safety Party in Bayuglu Region of Istanbul. In the same year he became president of the youth organization in Istanbul. Erdogan remained in these and other positions until 1980. When the political parties dissolved on September 12 of the same year he worked as a senior private sector adviser and management.

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan returned to political life with the establishment of the Welfare Party in 1983. He became head of the party in the Beyoglu branch in Istanbul in 1984, then head of the party in Istanbul and a member of the administrative committee of the central decisions of the Welfare Party in 1985. During his presidency of his party branch in Istanbul Set up a new organizational structure for the party, and served as an ideal model for other political parties as well. At that time, Erdogan made great political efforts, particularly in encouraging the inclusion of women and youth into politics. He took important steps in spreading them to the society and adopting them from the popular blocs. The new organization was also apparent to the Welfare Party, which was a major success in the local elections in Baigloo in 1989, and became a role model for the party's activities at the national level.

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was elected mayor of Istanbul, the largest city in the local elections held on March 27, 1994, and was able to correctly diagnose the chronic problems of this city, one of the most important cities in the world, creating quick and successful solutions; His interest in teamwork and human resources and his skill in managing money. And solved many of the problems of this very large city, including: the problem of water by extending long-distance water pipes hundreds of kilometers, and the problem of waste installation of the latest facilities to rotate, and the problem of pollution project to move to natural gas consumption. Erdogan also created more than 50 bridges, tunnels and roads to overcome the traffic and traffic problem in the city, and initiated many other projects that opened up future prospects for the city. Erdogan took careful measures to invest the resources of the municipality wisely and eliminate corruption, and when he took office, was able to pay the bulk of the debts of the municipality, which was close to two billion US dollars, and then made huge investments worth $ 4 billion, and thus opened a new page in the history of Turkish municipalities, As it gained the confidence of the population on the one hand, and became an example followed by a good example of the other mayors on the other hand.

On December 12, 1997, Recep Tayyip Erdogan was sentenced to prison for a piece of poetry he sang while delivering a speech to the masses in Sirte and a dismissal from the mayor of Istanbul, the largest city, although the poetry he read was contained in a book by a government institution, Turkey's Ministry of National Education recommended teachers.

After Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was released from prison for four months, he decided with his friends to establish the Justice and Development Party (AKP) on August 14, 2001, as a result of public insistence and democratic developments in the country. In the first year of the party's founding, it became a political movement that gained wide popular support. On the confidence of the people and their attachment to this new party, they managed to win the legislative elections in 2002 by winning two-thirds of the seats in parliament, which made them eligible to form a government on their own.

But Erdogan was unable to run in the legislative elections held on November 3, 2002 because of a court ruling. However, after the removal of the electoral barrier by means of legal amendments, he managed to run from the city of Sirte, where the elections were re-elected on March 9, 2003. Erdogan won 85% of the city's votes, For the twenty-second electoral cycle.

On 15 March 2003, Recep Tayyip Erdogan assumed the post of prime minister and embarked on vital and important reform packages to realize his dream of sustainable development for Turkey. He has made great strides in democratization, transparency and the fight against corruption. He also managed to control the inflation, which was a chronic problem that tormented the previous governments for decades, and this had a negative impact on the economy of the country and the state of the psychological community. And restored the Turkish currency reputation by removing six zeros from them. The interest rate was reduced in the state debt, and per capita income increased markedly. Dams, schools, housing, roads, hospitals, power plants ... etc were built at an unprecedented pace in the history of Turkey. These positive developments have made some foreign observers and Western leaders call them a "silent revolution".

In addition to his successful initiatives to join the European Union, which was a historic turning point for the country, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan took important steps in finding a lasting solution to the Cyprus issue and establishing positive relations with the various countries of the world thanks to his wise foreign policy, visits and intensive contacts. The established stability in the country has moved internal dynamics to make Turkey one of the central Powers of the world to the extent that Turkey's political power and commercial size are a reality that can be felt not only at the regional level, but also at the international level.

As chairman of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), Recep Tayyip Erdoğan won a major victory in the July 22, 2007 parliamentary elections with 46.6% of the vote. He formed the 60th government of the Turkish Republic and won the confidence of Turkish public opinion.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan renewed his victory by increasing the votes of his party to 49.8% in the elections of 12 June 2011 and managed to form the sixty-first government.

On Sunday, 10 August 2014, the Turkish people elected Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as President of the Republic of Turkey; he became the twelfth president in the history of Turkey.

Following the adoption of the constitutional amendment in the referendum of April 16, 2017 and paving the way for the possibility of the president being a political party, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was re-elected at the Third Extraordinary Congress held on 21 May 2017 as chairman of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), one of its founders.

He was elected President of the Republic again by 52.59% of the votes in the presidential elections held on Sunday, 24 June 2018.

President Erdogan was sworn in on July 9 to take up his new post on the same day as the first president of the republic under the presidential government system that came into force following the adoption of constitutional amendments on April 16, 2017.

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is married with four children