Turkey

POLITICAL PARTY

Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi
in presidency
Turkey
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has been President since 2014. He won reelection in 2023, securing 52.18% of the vote in the presidential run-off election. In 2023, in the most recent elections for the Turkish Grand National Assembly, his AK Party won 268 out of 600 seats, and 35.62% of the vote. In the previous election, in 2018, AK Party won 295 seats and 42.56% of the vote.
November 7, 2025
“Those people want to root out Turks."
Party leader (2001–2014, 2017–present), President of Turkey (2014–present)
Recep Tayyip Erdogan

MOST INFLUENTIAL PARTY MEMBER

Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Speaking against advocates of birth control and small families at an International Women's Day event for female supporters in 2008, Erdoğan said, "Those people want to root out Turks . . . Have at least three children, so our young population doesn’t decrease.”
March 8, 2008
President.gov.ua, CC BY 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

PAGE CITATIONS:

Turkish Presidency, Round 2, May 28, 2023, IFES Election Guide, last updated July 10, 2023, accessed November 7, 2025, www.electionguide.org/elections/id/4140/.

Turkish Grand National Assembly, May 14, 2023, IFES Election Guide, last updated September 3, 2023, accessed November 7, 2025, www.electionguide.org/elections/id/4040/.

Turkish Grand National Assembly, June 24, 2018, IFES Election Guide, last updated June 21, 2024, accessed November 7, 2025, www.electionguide.org/elections/id/3078/.

QUOTE CITATION:

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, March 8, 2008, quoted in Kaya Genç, "Erdoğan’s Great Replacement Theory," The Dial, January 25, 2023, www.thedial.world/articles/news/issue-1/turkey-erdogan-far-right-abortion-surveillance-technology.

TO CITE:

"Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi," Great Replacement Parties, ChainofIdeasBook.com, [access date], www.chainofideasbook.com/country/TR.