List of presidents of the Turkey by time in office

This page is a list of the 12 presidents of the Republic of Turkey, ranked according to their terms of office.

Rank	President	Length	Order of presidency	Notes
1.	Mustafa Kemal Atatürk	15 years and 12 days	1.	First President
2.	İsmet İnönü	11 years and 192 days	2.
3.	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan	11 years 30 gün	12.
4.	Celâl Bayar	10 years 5 gün	3.
5.	Ahmet Necdet Sezer	7 years 104 gün	10.
6.	Cevdet Sunay	7 years and 1 days	5.
	Fahri Korutürk		6.
	Kenan Evren		7.
	Süleyman Demirel		9.
	Abdullah Gül		11.
11.	Cemal Gürsel	4 years and 153 days	4.
12.	Turgut Özal	3 years 159 days	8.

Some exceptions

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the 12th and incumbent President, is the first and only president to be directly elected by popular vote.

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, 1st President Atatürk was the founder, member, and chairman of Turkey's first political party, the Republican People's Party (CHP).^[3]
İsmet İnönü, 2nd President During his tenure, İnönü was a member and chairman of the Republican People's Party (CHP).^[3]
Celal Bayar, 3rd President During his tenure, Bayar was a member of the Democrat Party, the first party to come to power in Turkey after the CHP.^[4]
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, 12th and current President Following the 2017 referendum, Erdoğan rejoined the Justice and Development Party (AK Parti), which he had founded. He still serves as the chairman of the AK Parti.^[5]