Prime Minister of Turkey
Prime Minister of the Republic of Turkey Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Başbakanı (Turkish) |
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Member of | Cabinet of Turkey National Security Council |
Residence | Çankaya Mansion |
Appointer | The President In accordance with voting in the Grand National Assembly |
Term length | None |
Constituting instrument | Anayasa |
Inaugural holder | Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (Ankara Government) İsmet İnönü (Republic) |
Formation | 3 May 1920 (Ankara Government) 1 November 1923 (Republic) |
Website | www.basbakanlik.gov.tr |
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The Prime Minister of Turkey (Turkish: Başbakan) is the head of government of Turkey. The prime minister is the leader of a political coalition in the Turkish parliament (Meclis) and the leader of the cabinet. The current holder of the position is Binali Yıldırım of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), who took office on 24 May 2016.
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History[edit]
In the Ottoman Empire, the prime minister of the Ottoman sultan was called Grand Vizier. After the Tanzimat period in the 19th century, the grand viziers came to assume a role more like that of the prime ministers of contemporary Western European monarchies. Later, with the Ottoman constitution of 1876, a parliament was established to oversee the prime minister, and with the amendments to the constitution during the Second Constitutional Era, the prime minister was made answerable to the parliament rather than the sultan. Finally, with the declaration of republic in 1923, the appointer of the prime minister became the president, instead of the sultan.
List of Prime Ministers[edit]
Living former Prime Ministers[edit]
Prime Minister | Born |
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Yıldırım Akbulut | November 15, 1935 |
Tansu Çiller | May 24, 1946 |
Mesut Yılmaz | November 6, 1947 |
Abdullah Gül | October 29, 1949 |
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan | February 26, 1954 |
Ahmet Davutoğlu | February 26, 1959 |
Longest track records[edit]
Name | Number of days | Remarks |
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İsmet İnönü | 12 years, 205 days + 3 years, 93 days = 16 years and 318 days |
1 year, 20 days +The first two periods were in the single-party period; formed 10 cabinets. |
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan | 11 years, 167 days | Formed three cabinets. |
Süleyman Demirel | 2 years, 82 days + 168 days + 305 days + 1 year, 177 days = 10 years and 152 days |
5 years, 150 days +Formed seven cabinets. |
Adnan Menderes | 10 years, 5 days | Formed five cabinets. |
Turgut Özal | 5 years, 322 days | Formed two cabinets. |
Bülent Ecevit | 20 days + 1 year, 311 days + 3 years, 311 days = 5 years and 208 days |
296 days +Formed five cabinets. |
Timeline[edit]
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See also[edit]
- Air transports of heads of state and government
- Official state car
- List of Prime Ministers of Turkey
- President of Turkey
- List of Presidents of Turkey
- Constitution of Turkey
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