Recep Tayyip Erdogan has had a long political career in Turkey, beginning as a student activist and later serving as mayor of Istanbul. As mayor, he tackled major issues like water access and garbage collection. However, his term as mayor was cut short when he was imprisoned for reciting a poem. He later became an MP and was elected president in 2014, becoming Turkey's first directly elected president. Erdogan is praised for his leadership and communication skills.

2. Why Receb tayyib erdogan was a Great leader?
Democratic Humanist Political
Emotional
Leading
cultural
ambassador

3. Childhood years and youth
• RecepTayyip Erdoğan was born
in of Istanbul.
• Attending Istanbul İmam Hatip
school and selling lemonade
and simit (sesame rings) on the
city's streets to make extra
money.

4. Political Beginnings
• While studying business
administration . He also
engaged in politics by joining
the NationalTurkish Student
Union, an anti-communist
action group.
• In 1976, he became the head of
a local youth branch of the
Islamist National Salvation
Party (MSP), led by Necmettin
Erbakan, who would later go on
to found the Felicity Party.

5. Political Activities
• He returned to political
activities with the Welfare
Party, established in 1983.
• He was elected the İstanbul
Provincial Head of theWelfare
Party and in the same year he
became a member of the
Central Executive Board of the
Welfare Party.

6. Mayor of Instanbul
• Elected Mayor of Metropolitan İstanbul. During his term in office as
Mayor.
Produced correct diagnoses and solutions:
✓Water problem.
✓Garbage problem.
✓Establishment of the most modern recycling.
✓ developed natural gas projects.

7. • Mr. Erdoğan paid most of the debts of the
İstanbul Municipality .
• He took over with its 2 billion dollars debt
and he during his tenure achieved
investments worth 4 billion dollars.
• He accomplished a breakthrough in the
municipal history and while his works
served as good examples for other mayors,
he won the confidence of the people.

8. • On December 12, 1997, while addressing the public in Siirt, Recep
Tayyip Erdoğan read a poem from a book, which was recommended
by the National Education Ministry and published by a state agency,
and after that, he was sentenced to imprisonment for reading that
poem.Thus, his term as mayor was ended.

9. • Mr. Erdoğan, who was not a candidate for MP during the elections in
November 3, 2002.Taking 85 % of the votes cast in that election, he
became a deputy from Siirt for the 22nd term.

10. • Elected the 12th President on August 10, 2014, RecepTayyip Erdoğan is also
the first President of the Republic ofTurkey elected by popular vote.
• on 3 November 2019, President RecepTayyip Erdoğan announced on 18
April 2018 that the vote was being brought forward. Presidential elections
were held to elect the President ofTurkey .

11. Valuable Life Lessons to Learn fromRecep
Tayyip Erdoğan
“If you're the leader, you have to communicate the message of
immortality to your people. Because I believe if a leader hides
behind a rock, then the people will hide behind a mountain.”
“If we believe in a democratic system, we have to accept
the will of the people.”
“Your targets can only be realized on the basis of
dreams”