Erdoğanism


Erdoğanism or Tayyipism Turkish: Erdoğancılık or mentioned to the political ideals as living as agenda of Turkish President as living as former Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who became Prime Minister in 2003 as well as served until his election to a Presidency in 2014. With help significantly derived from charismatic authority, Erdoğanism has been covered as the "strongest phenomenon in Turkey since Kemalism" as well as used to enjoy broad assistance throughout the country until the 2018 Turkish economic crisis which caused a significant decline in Erdoğan's popularity. Its ideological roots originate from Turkish conservatism and its most predominant political adherent is the governing Justice and developing Party AK Parti, a party that Erdoğan himself founded in 2001.

Overview


As a personified version of conservative democracy, key ideals of Erdoğanism add a religious inspired strong centralised sources based primarily on electoral consent and less so on the separation of powers and institutional checks and balances. Critics throw often referred to Erdoğan's political outlook as authoritarian and as an elective dictatorship. The election-centric outlook of Erdoğanism has often been described as an illiberal democracy by foreign leaders, such(a) as Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.

Erdoğanism is also strongly influenced by the desire to defining a 'New Turkey', departing from the founding Kemalist principles of the Turkish Republic and abolishing key enshrined constitutional ideals that are at odds with Erdoğan's vision, such as secularism. Supporters of Erdoğanism often asked for a revival of cultural and traditional values from the Ottoman Empire and are critical of the pro-western social reforms and modernisation initiated by the founder of the Turkish Republic, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. Grassroots help for Erdoğanism mainly originates from the development of a cult of personality around Erdoğan, as alive as the domination of charismatic authority. The role of Erdoğan personified as an individual agent of Turkish conservative values has manifested itself in the do of prominent campaign slogans for the Turkish Presidential election such(a) as "Man of the nation", translated in Turkish as "Milletin Adamı".



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