Getting to Know Biography Recep Tayyip Erdogan - President of Turkey
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's name has recently become a hot conversation in various media. The politician who now serves as the President of Turkey is famous for his number of impressions when he became Prime Minister of Turkey.
He made Turkey soar to become a new force in Europe, its ambition is to restore Turkey's glory.
A number of policies that made much progress for his country. His foreign policy measures received many positive responses from various countries. Regarding the profile and biography of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, he was born on February 26, 1954 in Istanbul, Turkey.
He has a wife named Emine Gülbaran and has 4 children. Erdogan's childhood was spent near the black sea, his father himself a sailor from the city of Rize.
He spent his school years studying religion at the Imam Hatif School. Then from there he then chose to continue his education by studying Economics and Business at Marmara University, Turkey.
Erdogan's Political Career First Time
Erdogan's own hobby is playing football and he even became a semi-professional soccer player when he was 16 years old. But stopped and preferred to work in a Transport company in Istanbul and also had time to undergo military service.
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's own political career began when he began joining the Islamic Party called Milli Selmet Partisi. But the party disbanded because of a military coup in 1980 which resulted in the dissolution of all parties in Turkey.
After political stability in Turkey has begun to recover, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan later becomes chairman of the welfare party. The party was founded by former members of the Milli Selmet Partition party.
Already having a political vehicle, Erdogan began trying to run for mayor in Central Istanbul. He also ran for the Turkish National Supreme Council but failed.
In 1991, Erdogan was elected as a Member of Parliament through his Party. But his position as an MP was revoked by the Turkish Central Election Commission.
The name Recep Tayyip Erdoğan then became widely known by the Turkish community when he was elected as mayor of Greater Istanbul. He brought his party namely the Welfare Party as the Biggest Party in Turkey.
From there he also became President of the Greater Istanbul Metropolitan Council. His success in designing a modern and comfortable city layout made him even more famous.
Especially when he managed to combat common problems in the capital. Such as succeeding in reducing unemployment, providing clean water for the citizens of Istanbul, Reducing the level of pollution of the city, combating prostitution.
Reduction of pollution levels through the action of planting thousands of trees in Istanbul, as well as prohibiting drinking from public places, making Erdogan increasingly popular in the eyes of the public.
Establish a Political Party and Become a Prime Minister
Erdogan's next political step was to establish the AKP party (Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi). The AKB Party is known as the Islamic Justice Party in 2001 which is Islamic.
His party then shot into one of the biggest parties in the former Ottoman Caliphate country. It was proven when his party, the AKP, won the general election in Turkey.
This made Erdogan's name soar in the Turkish political scene. Automatically made Erdogan the Turkish Prime Minister in 2003.
The likelihood of his policy at home and abroad makes his name soar as one of the world's best leaders.
Erdogan's success in building the Turkish state
This was proven by Erdogan by succeeding in making Turkey's National Domestic Product reach 100 billion dollars in 2013 a year before his tenure as prime minister expired.
Then he also made Turkey successfully included in the G-20 members, the countries with the strongest economies in the world, just imagine Turkey managed to move into 16th place as the country with the strongest economy, even though it was ranked 111th in the world.
In the field of military or national defense, Erdogan made Turkey succeed in producing its own defense or military equipment such as tanks, planes and military satellites themselves. Turkey's per capita income also rose from 3500 dollars per year to 11,000 in 2013.
Even Erdogan managed to make the Turkish currency exchange rate rise several times in his reign. During Erdogan's administration, unemployment was successfully reduced by only 2 percent from 35 percent, which was offset by a salary increase of almost 300 percent for employee wages.
Turkey's own State Debt against the IMF was successfully resolved and foreign exchange reserves were also increased to 100 billion dollars. In the education sector itself, Erdogan made a policy by freeing the cost of education where all tuition fees for the Turkish people were borne by the government.
He also increased the cost of research or scientific research for the purpose of becoming the number one country in 2023. Besides that Erdogan also restored the old habits of teaching the Koran and Hadith in public schools in Turkey that had long been eliminated.
The existence of hijab freedom on campuses in Turkey. The rapid progress of the Turkish state under Erdogan's leadership as prime minister has made Turkey now respected as one of the strongest countries in Europe.
Become President of Turkey
When his term was completed on August 28, 2014, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan then tried to run for President of Turkey with the support of the AKP party (Adalet ve Kalkinma Partition).
As a result, on 10 August 2014 Erdogan was elected President of Turkey through a general election replacing the previous president with a term of five years.
The Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Center even included the name Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as the number two most influential Muslim figure in the world in 2010. Even Time magazine chose Erdogan as the most popular figure in 2011.
That is the biography and profile of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan who now serves as the president of Turkey and has a strong influence in the world.