Real GDP during each president's tenure

Every president since 1991, ranked by how real GDP changed from their first day in office. Politare shows what happened during a tenure; it does not claim the office-holder caused it.

#	President	In office	Total	Per year	Chart
1	AKP Recep Tayyip Erdoğan	14 Mar 2003 – 28 Aug 2014	+92.6% Q4 2002 → Q2 2014	+5.9%/yr
2	AKP Recep Tayyip Erdoğan	9 Jul 2018 – now	+39.0% Q2 2018 → Q2 2026	+4.2%/yr
3	AKP Binali Yıldırım	24 May 2016 – 9 Jul 2018	+13.8% Q1 2016 → Q2 2018	+5.9%/yr
4	AKP Ahmet Davutoğlu	28 Aug 2014 – 24 May 2016	+9.1% Q2 2014 → Q1 2016	+5.1%/yr
5	ANAP Mesut Yılmaz	30 Jun 1997 – 11 Jan 1999	+8.0% Q1 1997 → Q4 1998	+4.5%/yr
6	Necmettin Erbakan	28 Jun 1996 – 30 Jun 1997	+6.7% Q1 1996 → Q1 1997	+6.7%/yr
7	DSP Bülent Ecevit	11 Jan 1999 – 18 Nov 2002	+1.3% Q4 1998 → Q3 2002	+0.3%/yr

Sorted by total, highest first. Every row is indexed to the last quarter complete before the first day in office ("from" marks a start that had to move because that period had no data, or because the period cut it); Levels are per cent changes, rates are differences in %; "per year" compounds levels and divides rates. Tenures with under 12 months, or under three observations, are left out. ₺bn, chain-linked volumes, last four quarters · TurkStat quarterly national accounts via the OECD (QNA, B1GQ), chain-linked volumes summed over the trailing four quarters (the World Bank's constant-lira GDP before 1995, rescaled) · Turkey data · as of Sep 2026.