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Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

1954 - Today

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Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (born 26 February 1954) is a Turkish politician who is the 12th and current 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has received more than 14,785,530 page views. His biography is available in 138 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 130 in 2019). Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is the 155th most popular politician (up from 225th in 2019), the 25th most popular biography from Türkiye (up from 44th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Turkish Politician.

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is most famous for being the president of Turkey. He has been president since 2014.

Memorability Metrics

  • 15M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 82.40

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 138

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 13.74

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.52

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan ranks 155 out of 19,576. Before him are Pol Pot, Abdul Hamid II, Xerxes I, Alexander I of Russia, Hulagu Khan, and Shimon Peres. After him are Akbar, Deng Xiaoping, Mustafa I, Orhan, Gamal Abdel Nasser, and Baldwin IV of Jerusalem.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan ranks 2. Before him is Angela Merkel. After him are Jackie Chan, François Hollande, Denzel Washington, John Travolta, Hugo Chávez, Shinzō Abe, Alexander Lukashenko, Viktor Yushchenko, Halimah Yacob, and James Cameron.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan ranks 25 out of 1,347. Before him are Murad IV (1612), Mehmed III (1566), Murad I (1326), Murad II (1404), Basil of Caesarea (329), and Abdul Hamid II (1842). After him are Luke the Evangelist (31), Mustafa I (1591), Orhan (1288), Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire (1615), Mehmed IV (1642), and Anaxagoras (-500).

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Among POLITICIANS In Türkiye

Among politicians born in Türkiye, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan ranks 13. Before him are Murad III (1546), Murad IV (1612), Mehmed III (1566), Murad I (1326), Murad II (1404), and Abdul Hamid II (1842). After him are Mustafa I (1591), Orhan (1288), Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire (1615), Mehmed IV (1642), Osman II (1604), and Bayezid I (1354).

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