Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s net worth revealed after Turkey election win
Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s net worth revealed after Turkey's election win
Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s net worth revealed after Turkey election win
Recep Tayyip Erdogan reclaimed his victory in the Turkey elections despite
rumors of ‘manipulated’ results and brought in sweeping new powers for the AK
Party leader until at least 2023 The Turkish elections, held more than a year
early, complete the NATO member’s transition from a parliamentary government
system to a presidential one Erdogan took 52.
5
percent of the vote in the presidential race, with more than 99 percent of the
votes counted while the AK Party took 42 5 percent in the parliamentary polls.
The latter count was boosted by its
nationalist allies which outstipped expectations, taking 11 1 percent and the
opposition candidate Muharrem Ince was left with 31 percent.
Outside
of his party headquarters in Ankara, Erdogan said: ‘This election’s victor is
democracy, this election’s victory is national will ’ But what is Recep Tayyip
Erdogan’s net worth?Recep Tayyip ErdoganBorn.
on February 26, 1954, Recep Tayyip Erdogan
started out in humble beginnings as the son of a coastguard on Turkey’s Black
Sea coast At the age of 13, Erdogan moved to Istanbul with his four other
siblings where he attended an Islamic school before getting a degree from
Marmara University in Management He went on to play professional football and
became renowned for his fame after playing for the Turkish football club
Kasımpaşa, while also being a member of Necmettin Erbakan’s Welfare Party and
active in Islamic circles.
Erdogan
ended his footballing career when he was elected as the Mayor of Istanbul, but
after military officers made a power grab, the Welfare Party was banned A year
later in 1999, he was jailed for four months for publicly reading a nationalist
poem that included the lines:
‘The
mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets, and
the faithful our soldiers ’In 2001 with Abdullah Gul, Erdogan founded the
Islamic-rooted AKP, the party that went on to win a solid majority in the
parliamentary election and led to Recep being appointed as prime minister.
More
than a decade later, a corruption scandal battered his government and although
Erdogan blamed the Gulenists, three cabinet ministers’ sons were arrested.
Erdogan
became the President in 2014, he survived an attempted coup by factions within
the military and went on to win the referendum on increased presidential powers
At the time,
Erdogan
said that the plot was engineered by the US-based Muslim cleric Fethullah
Gulen, who headed up a network of schools educating people about the Hizmet
movement, which promotes altruism and modesty.
Since
then, Turkish courts have jailed dozens of officers for alleged coup plots
after the failed attempt, which claimed at least 240 lives According to
officials, Erdogan’s life was also put in danger while staying in Marmaris, but
he was back in less than 12 hours with a TV appearance during which he declared
himself a ‘chief commander’ Although.
the
Turkish President has resolved economic problems, he has also been considered
to be an autocratic leader who is against anyone who opposes him Despite
denying that he wants to impose Islamic values and revealing that he is
committed to secularism, his supporters still refer to him as ‘Sultan’, a
reference to the Ottoman Empire.
Turkey
lifted the ban on women wearing headscarves in the country’s state institutions
in 2013 but bids to criminalize adultery and introduce alcohol-free zones
failed Erdogan has also stated that
‘no Muslim family’ should consider birth
control or family planning because of his aim to ‘multiply our descendants’ The
AKP has also managed to keep inflation under control after the 1990s when it
soared above 100 percent, but in 2014, the economy started to change and
unemployment rose above 10 percent.
Erdogan's wife Recep Tayyip Erdogan married Emine Gulbaran on July 4, 1978, and the couple
have two sons, Ahmet Burak and Necmettin Bilal and two daughters, Esra and
Sumeyye 2018 Turkish elections Erdogan declared victory in the Turkish
presidential election in June 2018 amid speculation of ‘manipulated’ results
and the President received the executive powers he has sought to
tighten his grip on the nation The AKP will now rule over Turkey until 2023
after its victory in parliamentary and presidential polls, taking 42
5
percent while Erdogan garnered 52.5 percent of the vote. The opposition’s
candidate Muharrem Ince took nearly 31 percent President Erdogan will now form
a government as well as appoint ministers, vice presidents, and top bureaucrats
He will also be able to issue decrees, prepare budgets, and impose states of
emergency The role of prime minister has now been scrapped and is thought to
further dilute democracy in Turkey under Erdogan’s one-man rule Erdogan net worth Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s net worth has accumulated to approximately $58
million (£44m) and is the richest Turkish politician according to Top Richest
Erdogan
was also listed as the 48th most powerful person on the 2018 Forbes list
However, this figure seems a little high for someone who just earns $58,000
(£44,000) a year, as reported by the German newspaper Bild The article then
went on to cite data published by Turkish opposition newspaper Cumhuriyet which
stated that all members of the Erdogan family appear to be in business Bild
also revealed that Erdgogan's son Ahmet’s net worth amounted to around $80
million (£60m) and made claims that he may be supported by the Turkish
government
Erdogan’s
other son Bilal, who frequently garners media attention for alleged criminal
activity, now lives in Italy after being embroiled in a political corruption
scandal The Turkish President also has one of the most lavish official
residences in the world, the Ak Saray, otherwise known as the White Palace,
which has a whopping 1,100 rooms, 250 of which are for the sole use of the
Erdogan family Thought to be 30 times the size of the White House and believed
to be the largest palace built anywhere in the world for more than 100 years, a
reported £7 million was spent on carpets and another £5 million on 400 10ft
high double doors
The
silk wallpaper is thought to have cost £2,000 a roll and one drinking glass in
the household is worth £250 Due to the numerous spas, swimming pools,
bathrooms, and steam rooms, the heating bill is thought to run up to £500,000
every winter The entire home is thought to have cost £500 million to construct.
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