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Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

President of Turkey, 2014 to present (Prime Minister 2003 to 2014)

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Has dominated Turkish politics for over two decades, shifting the country toward a strong presidency and a greater public role for religion.

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan sits in the right-authoritarian part of the Caucus economy and liberty compass: slightly free market and strongly authoritarian. The clearest positions are strongly authoritarian on liberty and authority, strongly traditional on culture and strongly religious on religion.

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Where Recep Tayyip Erdoğan sits on ten dimensions

Each scale runs from one pole to the other, and the dot shows the overall tendency of this person's record and public life. These are simplified estimates and open to debate.

💰EconomySlightly free market
State-ledFree market
⚖️Liberty and authorityStrongly authoritarian
LibertarianAuthoritarian
🎭CultureStrongly traditional
ProgressiveTraditional
🌍NationStrongly nationalist
GlobalistNationalist
🌱EnvironmentLeaning growth-first
Growth-firstNature-first
🤖TechnologyLeaning tech-optimist
Tech-cautiousTech-optimist
🕊️War and peaceStrongly strength-first
Peace-firstStrength-first
🏛️InstitutionsLeaning anti-establishment
Anti-establishmentInstitutional
🙏ReligionStrongly religious
SecularReligious
🛡️InterventionismStrongly interventionist
Non-interventionistInterventionist

People most like Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

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People furthest from Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

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Political views closest to Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

Religious rightSeeks to shape law and politics by religious, often Christian, values.97%IslamismA broad family of movements that seek to organize politics and law around Islam, from…96%MilitarismTreats military strength and martial values as central to national life.96%BonapartismAuthoritarian rule by a popular leader who claims to embody the nation, with plebiscites…94%

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Percentages show how close two profiles are across all ten dimensions. Including a person here is for study and comparison, not approval. Portrait: Rory Arnold, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons; see all photo credits.