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Biography
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is a Turkish politician and statesman who has been the president of Turkey since 2014. He previously served as the 25th prime minister from 2003 to 2014 as part of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), which he co-founded in 2001. He also served as mayor of Istanbul from 1994 to 1998. Coming from an Islamist background and promoting socially conservative policies, Erdoğan has been Turkey's de facto leader since 2002. Turkey has experienced democratic backsliding and suppression of dissent under Erdoğan.
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Awards & recognition
- Supreme Order of Turkic World · 2022
- Ig Nobel Prize · 2020
- Order of the Republic · 2018
- National Order of Madagascar · 2017
- Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold · 2015
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- honorary doctor of the Shanghai International Studies University · 2012
- Order "Danaker" · 2011
- King Faisal International Prize in Service to Islam · 2010
- Order of the Golden Fleece · 2010
- Nishan-e-Pakistan · 2009
- Golden Plate Award · 2004
- Al-Gaddafi International Prize — Human Rights
- Amir Amanullah Khan Award
- Collar of Honor
- Dostyk Order of grade I
- Grand Cross of the National Order of Mali
- Heydar Aliyev Order
- honorary doctor of Marmara University
- honorary doctor of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations
- Khoja Ahmed Yasawi Order
- Medal "In Commemoration of the 1000th Anniversary of Kazan"
- National Order of Mali
- National Order of Merit
- National Order of Niger
- National Order of the Ivory Coast
- National Order of the Lion of Senegal
- Order "For contribution to the development of cooperation"
- Order of Al Said
- Order of al-Hussein bin Ali
- Order of Friendship
- Order of Leopold
- Order of Manas
- Order of Manas, 1st class
- Order of Mubarak the Great
- Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 1st class
- Order of Sheikh-ul-Islam
- Order of the Crown of the Realm
- Order of the Golden Eagle
- Order of the Liberator
- Order of the National Flag
- Order of the Republic
- Order of the Somali Star
- Order of Zayed
- Steiger Award
