Prime Minister of Turkey

Prime Minister of Turkey
Prime Minister of Turkey
Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Başbakanı
Residence	Başbakanlık Konutu
Appointer	President of Turkey
Term length	4 years, unlimited
Inaugural holder	Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (Ankara Government); İsmet İnönü (Republic)
Formation	3 May 1920 (Ankara Government); 1 November 1923 (Republic)
Website	basbakanlik.gov.tr

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. Former Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu was chosen to be the country's prime minister in August 2014, replacing Recep Tayyip Erdogan who was to become the President of Turkey on 28 August 2014, he recently resigned from the post on 6 May 2016.^[1]^[2]

History

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

Living former Prime Ministers

Prime Minister	Born
Yıldırım Akbulut	(1935-11-15) November 15, 1935 (age 89)
Tansu Çiller	(1946-05-24) May 24, 1946 (age 78)
Mesut Yılmaz	(1947-11-06) November 6, 1947 (age 77)
Abdullah Gül	(1950-10-29) October 29, 1950 (age 74)
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan	(1954-02-26) February 26, 1954 (age 70)

Longest track records

Name	Number of days	Remarks
İsmet İnönü	1 year, 20 days + 12 years, 205 days + 3 years, 93 days = 16 years and 318 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	5 years, 150 days + 2 years, 82 days + 168 days + 305 days + 1 year, 177 days = 10 years and 152 days	Formed seven cabinets.
Adnan Menderes	10 years, 5 days	Formed five cabinets.
Turgut Özal	5 years, 322 days	Formed two cabinets.
Bülent Ecevit	296 days + 20 days + 1 year, 311 days + 3 years, 311 days = 5 years and 208 days	Formed five cabinets.

Timeline

References

^ "The Washington Post".
^ "AFP".

External links

[1] "The Washington Post".

[2] "AFP".

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v t e Ministries of Turkey
Ministries	Agriculture and Forestry (list) Culture and Tourism (list) Energy and Natural Resources (list) Environment, Urbanisation and Climate Change (list) Family and Social Services (list) Foreign Affairs (list) Health (list) Industry and Technology (list) Interior (list) Justice (list) National Defense (list) National Education (list) Labour and Social Security (list) Trade (list) Transport and Infrastructure (list) Treasury and Finance (list) Youth and Sports (list)
Offices	Foreign Affairs EU Affairs and Chief Negotiator
Defunct	Prime Ministry (list) Deputy Prime Ministries (list) Construction and Settlement Coordination Customs and Monopolies Development Economic Affairs Enterprises EU Affairs and Chief Negotiator General Staff Local Governments Navy Sharia and the Foundations Village Affairs

v t e Prime ministers of Turkey
Government of the Grand National Assembly (1920–1923)	Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Fevzi Çakmak Rauf Orbay Fethi Okyar
Republic of Turkey (1923–2018)	İsmet İnönü Fethi Okyar İsmet İnönü Celâl Bayar Refik Saydam Ahmet Fikri Tüzer Şükrü Saracoğlu Recep Peker Hasan Saka Şemsettin Günaltay Adnan Menderes Cemal Gürsel Fahri Özdilek İsmet İnönü Suat Hayri Ürgüplü Süleyman Demirel Nihat Erim Ferit Melen Naim Talu Bülent Ecevit Sadi Irmak Süleyman Demirel Bülent Ecevit Süleyman Demirel Bülent Ecevit Süleyman Demirel Bülent Ulusu Turgut Özal Ali Bozer Yıldırım Akbulut Mesut Yılmaz Süleyman Demirel Erdal İnönü Tansu Çiller Mesut Yılmaz Necmettin Erbakan Mesut Yılmaz Bülent Ecevit Abdullah Gül Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Ahmet Davutoğlu Binali Yıldırım
Italics denote acting prime ministers.