List of Presidents of Turkey (1923-2023)

The Turkey earthquake has engulfed the nation in rubble and rubble, with a few survivors and thousands waiting to be rescued.

While Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday admitted “deficiencies” following criticism of his government’s response to the massive earthquake that has destroyed more than 15,000 people in Turkey and Syria.

This enormous scale of the disaster has led to a series of relief operations in the country’s freezing climate.

Survivors desperately search for food and shelter in these atrocious weather conditions, with many remaining silent under the rubble as they cried out for help.

As online criticism mounted against the Turkish authorities’ response to one of the deadliest earthquakes of the century, with a magnitude of 7.8, Erdogan, Turkey’s president, visited one of the worst-affected places, the epicenter of Kahramanmaras, and acknowledged problems in the response.

“Of course, there are deficiencies. The conditions are clear. It is not possible to be prepared for a disaster like this,” he said.

Twitter was also not working on Turkish mobile networks, according to reports and web monitoring group NetBlocks.

President Erdoğan in Hatay, affected by the earthquake https://t.co/0cWFaf5dkV pic.twitter.com/Rg03gqkfdy

— Presidency of the Republic of Türkiye (@trpresidency)
February 9, 2023

The President of Türkiye is the highest authority of the Republic of Turkey.

They serve as the nation’s head of state and head of government and so far there have been twelve heads of state since 1923, the beginning of the republican period that followed the Turkish War of Independence.

Learn about all the presidents of Turkey through this list, including term, party, life span, and more.

List of presidents of Türkiye (1923-2023)

No.	Name (Life expectancy)	Term of office and mandate Duration in years and days.			Party
1	Mustafa Kemal Ataturk (1881-1938)	October 29th 1923	November 10 1938	1923	Republican People’s Party
				1927
				1931
				1935
		15 years and 13 days
2	İsmet İnönü (1884-1973)	November 10 1938	May 27 1950	1938	Republican People’s Party
				1939
				1943
				1946
		11 years and 198 days
3	Celâl Bayar (1883-1986)	May 27 1950	May 27 1960	1950	Democratic Party
				1954
				1957
		10 years and 1 day
4	Cemal Gürsel (1895-1966)	May 27 1960	28th March 1966	—	Independent
				1961
		4 years and 170 days
5	Cevdet Sunay (1899-1982)	28th March 1966	28th March 1973	1966	Independent
		7 years and 1 day
6	Fahri Korutürk (1903-1987)	28th March 1973	6 of April 1980	1973	Independent
		7 years and 1 day
–	İhsan Sabri Çağlayangil (1908-1993)	April 6, 1980	September 12, 1980
		160 days
7	Kenan Evren (1917-2015)	September 12 1980	November 9 1989	—	Independent
				1982
		7 years and 1 day
8	Turgut Ozal (1927-1993)	November 9 1989	April 17th 1993	1989	Independent
		3 years and 160 days
–	Hüsamettin Cindoruk (born 1933)	April 17, 1993	May 16, 1993
		30 days
9	Suleyman Demirel (1924-2015)	May 16 1993	May 16 2000	1993	Independent
		7 years and 1 day
10	Ahmet Necdet Sezer (born 1941)	May 16 2000	August 28 2007	2000	Independent
		7 years and 105 days
eleven	Abdullah Gul (born 1950)	August 28 2007	August 28 2014	2007	Independent
		7 years and 1 day
12	Recep Tayyip Erdogan (born 1954)	August 28 2014	Headline	2014	Independent
				2018	Justice and Development Party
		8 years and 166 days

The average age at inauguration of incoming Turkish presidents is 63.5 years.

The youngest person to accept the presidency of Türkiye was Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. At the age of 42, he was the founding father of the newly formed Turkish Republic.

Fahri Korutürk was the oldest to become elected president. He was invested at the age of 69.

Abdullah Gül was the youngest person to become former president, at the age of 63.

Celâl Bayar was the oldest president at the end of his term, at 77 years old.

At 103 years old, Celâl Bayar was also the country’s oldest president.

He is one of three Turkish presidents (along with Süleyman Demirel and Kenan Evren) who have lived to be 90 years old.

In 2023, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, 68, is the youngest living president.

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