President Erdogan's people-centric politics and political pragmatism have proven to be a winning formula throughout his long and successful career. Here is a brief overview of his political profile
Unlike many Western political leaders who owe their rise in ranks to elite-centric democratic political structures, Erdogan comes from humble origins. He belonged to Türkiye's periphery, where frustrations over the suppression of religiosity and conservatism under the Kemalist establishment's strict secularist practices have long been pervasive.Erdogan’s political origins
Erdogan graduated in 1981 from Business Administration at the Istanbul Academy of Economics and Commercial Science, which was later named Marmara University's Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences. But on the morning of March 27, he emerged as the victorious candidate to the shock of the country’s military-led establishment, which saw the Welfare Party as an ideological threat to their radical interpretation of secularism, which even banned headscarves in universities at the time.
In 2013, as the country’s prime minister, he revisited the Pinarhisar prison, located in Kirklareli, a province in Türkiye’s European region of Thrace, where he had been jailed,
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