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Recep Tayyip ERDOGAN

Politician

Recep Tayyip ERDOGAN is a politically exposed person. They are a person of interest by virtue of their position and the influence they may hold. They have not been found on international sanctions lists.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Recep Tayyip ERDOGAN · Recep Tayyip Erdoğan · Redžep Tajjip Erdoan · Redžeps Tajjips Erdogans · Rejep Taýýyp Ärdogan · 28 more...				[sources]
Alias	Erdogan, Recep Tayyip · R.Tayyip Erdoğan · Rajab Dayib Erdogaan · Receb Tayyib Erdoğan · Recep Erdogan · 105 more...				[sources]
Weak alias	Erdogan · Erdogán · Erdoğan · Erdoğán · RTE · 18 more...				[sources]
Birth date	1954-02-26				[sources]
Place of birth	Beyoğlu · Istanbul · Kasımpaşa				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Türkiye				[sources]
Country	Türkiye				[sources]
Citizenship	Türkiye				[sources]
Classification	National government (current)				[sources]
First name	Recep · Tayyip				[sources]
Last name	Erdoğan				[sources]
Political association	Justice and Development Party · National Salvation Party · Virtue Party · Welfare Party				[sources]
Title	His Excellency				[sources]
Website	facebook.com · twitter.com · www.tccb.gov.tr · www.tccb.gov.tr				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q39259				[sources]
Position	Grand National Assembly (member, 2002-2007) · Grand National Assembly (member, 2007-2011) · Grand National Assembly (member, 2011-2015) · President · President of Turkey (2014-) · 3 more...				[sources]
Education	Marmara University (-1981) · İmam Hatip school				[sources]
Religion	Sunni Islam				[sources]
Source link	www.cia.gov · www.cia.gov				[sources]
Last change	2025-12-29	Last processed	2025-12-29	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

President of Turkey since 2014

— Wikidata non-official source, 2024-10-26

Relationships

Family members
Relative	Relationship	Start date	End date
Bilal Erdoğan Politician	child · father	-	-
Sümeyye Erdoğan Politician	child · father	-	-

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
President of Turkey	2014-08-28	-

Relatives
Person	Relationship	Start date	End date
Ahmet Burak Erdoğan Politician	child · father	-	-
Esra Albayrak Erdoğan Politician	child · father	-	-

Data sources

MySociety's EveryPolitician Dataset of National Legislators57,728

All members of national legislatures in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.

Global · MySociety · non-official source

UN Heads of State, Heads of Government and Ministers for Foreign Affairs1,068

The UN's list of senior government officials in all of its member states.

DGACM

US CIA World Factbook Heads of State and Government875

An index of most national-level heads of state and heads of government in world governments that is publicly maintained by the CIA.

United States · CIA

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons316,647

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories384,022

Category-based imports from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

US CIA World Leaders11,007

An index of most national-level cabinet members in world governments that is publicly maintained by the CIA.

United States · CIA

External databases

The record has been enriched with data from the following external databases:

Wikidata343,483

Wikidata is the structured data project of the Wikipedia community, providing fact-based information edited by humans and machines

External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions552,358

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: evpo-8eb878de-9491-47b1-b5a0-a01675095109 · unprot-e426e4ba83caa57e9ac7e18cd6ed0bb7233bc34f · unprot-2c5270a2d66ebd3f22d9d1050e559603235ff0d6 · unprot-3a59821634c9386b65dcdc5974175057e3d1c0a9 · us-cia-turkey-turkiye-recep-tayyip-erdogan-president · us-cia-turkey-recep-tayyip-erdogan-president

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