State · 1923 – present
Turkey
A state of 1923 – present — 103 years, still standing in the Middle East and North Africa. It replaced Ottoman Empire and Provisional National Government of the Southwestern Caucasus. The atlas records 144 things within it — wars and battles 6 · regime change 3 · unrest and atrocity 28 · famine and plague 1 · natural disasters 19 · treaties 6 · people 81. Its line of rulers holds 17 people.
- Still standing: the span runs to the year of the build, 2026.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 103 years
- and still standing
- Rulers
- 17
- the President of Turkey
- Most ground
- 767,600 km²
- in 1939
- Within it
- 144
- recorded rows
- Symbols
- 2
- on record, with years
Where it sits in time
Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.
Before and after
The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.
Before it
- Provisional National Government of the Southwestern Caucasus · replaces · 1918 – 1919
- Ottoman Empire · replaces · 1302 – 1922
Rulers
The line of President of Turkey - the office this state names as its head of state.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mustafa Kemal Atatürk | 1923 – 1938 | 15 years | died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death | |
| Abdülhalik Renda | 1938 – 1938 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| İsmet İnönü | 1938 – 1950 | 12 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Celâl Bayar | 1950 – 1960 | 10 years | deposed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Cemal Gürsel | 1961 – 1966 | 5 years | died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death | |
| İbrahim Şevki Atasagun | 1966 – 1966 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Cevdet Sunay | 1966 – 1973 | 7 years | resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Tekin Arıburun | 1973 – 1973 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Fahri Korutürk | 1973 – 1980 | 7 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| İhsan Sabri Çağlayangil | 1980 – 1980 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Kenan Evren | 1980 – 1989 | 9 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Turgut Özal | 1989 – 1993 | 4 years | died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death | |
| Hüsamettin Cindoruk | 1993 – 1993 | under a year | resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Süleyman Demirel | 1993 – 2000 | 7 years | resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Ahmet Necdet Sezer | 2000 – 2007 | 7 years | ending not on record | |
| Abdullah Gül | 2007 – 2014 | 7 years | ending not on record | |
| Recep Tayyip Erdoğan | 2014 – in office | in office since 2014 | still in office |
17 rulers, 17 with terms dated as terms, covering 1923 – 2014. Median reign 7 years. 3 of 16 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. The violent-handover count is withheld: power changed hands so often that any rising falls beside one (exposure 0.78, limit 0.6). A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.
Heads of government
The line of head of government, drawn and never measured: a cabinet is not a reign.
| Bülend Ulusu | lived 1923 – 2015 |
| Süleyman Demirel | lived 1924 – 2015 |
| Erdal İnönü | lived 1926 – 2007 |
| Turgut Özal | lived 1927 – 1993 |
| Yıldırım Akbulut | lived 1935 – 2021 |
| Tansu Çiller | 1993 – 1996 |
| Necmettin Erbakan | 1996 – 1997 |
| Mesut Yılmaz | 1997 – 1999 |
| Bülent Ecevit | 1999 – 2002 |
| Abdullah Gül | 2002 – 2003 |
| Recep Tayyip Erdoğan | 2003 – 2014 |
| Ahmet Davutoğlu | 2014 – 2016 |
| Binali Yıldırım | 2016 – 2018 |
| Recep Tayyip Erdoğan | 2018 – … |
Ground held, by year
km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.
762,600 km² in 1933, 766,900 km² in 2023; at its largest 767,600 km² in 1943. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.
Flags and arms, in order
Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.
coat of arms, undatedEmblem of Turkey · Public domain 
flag, from 1844Flag of Turkey · Public domain
What happened within it, by century
Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.
1900 – 1999104 rows · 3 wars and battles · 16 risings, regime changes and massacres
- Recep Tayyip Erdoğan · ruler · 1954 – present
- Orhan Pamuk · writer · 1952 – present
- Abdullah Gül · ruler · 1950 – present
- Süleyman Demirel · ruler · 1924 – 2015
- Ahmet Davutoğlu · politician · 1959 – present
- Fethullah Gülen · writer · 1941 – 2024
- Turgut Özal · ruler · 1927 – 1993
- Tansu Çiller · politician · 1946 – present
and 96 more in the atlas.
2000 – 209933 rows · 3 wars and battles · 15 risings, regime changes and massacres
- 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes · disaster · 2023
- 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt · unrest · 2016
- Istanbul Convention · treaty · 2011
- Istanbul nightclub shooting · atrocity · 2017
- Gezi Park protests · unrest · 2013
- Assassination of Andrei Karlov · atrocity · 2016
- 2020 Aegean Sea earthquake · disaster · 2020
- 2011 Van earthquakes · disaster · 2011
and 25 more in the atlas.
Among all states
Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.
- How long it stood103 years
stood longer than 47% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held767,600 km²
held more ground at its peak than 80% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
- Wars recorded per century3.9
had more wars on record per century than 99% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
- How long a reign lasted, at the median7 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 26% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
- Rulers on record17
has more rulers on record than 90% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 46 causes the record names and 0 results, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.
Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 1913 – 2036, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1939, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q43 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.