Turkey · 2003–
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
From market-friendly Islamist reformer to a personalized presidency over courts, press, and the central bank.
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is on the world-leaders chart for Turkey, 2003–. The placement note, from the public governing record, is: From market-friendly Islamist reformer to a personalized presidency over courts, press, and the central bank.
The dot is economics +8 and authority +68, on a scale from −100 to +100. That is near the middle on economics. The other axis sits toward authority. Left means a larger public role. Up means more authority. Neither direction is treated as the correct one.
A second note separates what was said in public from what the government then did. Said: Muslim democracy, EU-bound markets, and an end to the old secular tutelage. Done: Early growth and a later presidential system, with courts and the press brought to heel. The gap, when there is one, is part of the placement. A promise that was kept and a promise that was dropped are not given the same weight.
The nearest other figures on these two numbers are Napoleon Bonaparte (France, +10 / +70) and Viktor Orbán (Hungary, +18 / +64). Nearest means nearest on the chart, not alike in character.
Two governments can share a number and share nothing else. The source is the public governing record, not a news write-up and not a campaign advertisement.