Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan appears in roughly 14 monitored articles per day as of August 20, 2026. Mentions are down 31.4% week-over-week. The tone of that coverage averages -2.60 — negative.

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is a Turkish politician and statesman who has been the president of Turkey since 2014. He previously served as the 25th prime minister from 2003 to 2014 as part of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), which he co-founded in 2001. He also served as mayor of Istanbul from 1994 to 1998. Coming from an Islamist background and promoting socially conservative policies, Erdoğan has been Turkey's de facto leader since 2002. Turkey has experienced democratic backsliding and suppression of dissent under Erdoğan.

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Also covered as: Erdogan · Wikidata

Data updated: · refreshed every 2 hours from GDELT

Articles / day
14
mentioning this entity
Week over week
-31.4%
7-day mean vs prior
Tone
-2.60
negative

Coverage volume, last 90 days

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan mentions per day: 91 days, latest 14.00 on 2026-08-200.0025005000May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Coverage tone, last 90 days

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan coverage tone: 91 days, latest tone -2.60 on 2026-08-20+50-5May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Reader interest (Wikipedia)

Daily Wikipedia pageviews for Recep Tayyip Erdoğan: 89 days, latest 2452.00 on 2026-08-180.001250025000May 22Jun 6Jun 21Jul 6Jul 21Aug 5Aug 18

Daily human pageviews of the entity's English Wikipedia article (Wikimedia Analytics). Coverage above measures what the press SUPPLIES; this measures what readers DEMAND — divergence between the two is its own signal.

Mentions counted via a quoted-name query against the GDELT DOC API, aggregated to UTC days — see methodology. Derived data is CC BY 4.0 (“Geotone / GDELT”).