Turkish president visits 86 countries in three-year term

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan paid 86 official visits abroad in the three years since he came to office as president.

He mostly visited European countries between Aug. 28, 2014 and Aug. 10, 2017, according to reports.

Erdoğan made official contacts visiting 16 European countries 21 times. Erdoğan has been to England, Latvia, Estonia, Ukraine, Slovenia, Slovakia, Romania, Albania, Croatia, Poland, Belarus and Bosnia-Herzegovina once, Germany twice, and France and Belgium three times.

Flying to the United States once in 2014, three times in 2016, and once this year, Erdoğan has visited Columbia, Cuba, Mexico, Chili, Peru and Ecuador in America since he began his term.

Russia hosted Erdoğan four times; China three, and Iran once in the last three years.

The president paid many visits to countries in the Middle East, as well as Europe. Visiting Saudi Arabia five times, Erdoğan has been to Qatar and Kuwait thrice, and Bahrain and Jordan once.

Erdoğan’s Africa visits during his presidency included Algeria, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somalia, Senegal, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Madagascar and Ecuador Guinea in Africa.

While he visited the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus and Azerbaijan three times each, he paid visits to Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Indonesia, Japan and India once, Turkmenistan twice, and Pakistan three times.

In total the Turkish president paid 86 official visits abroad: 12 visits to 12 countries in 2014; 33 visits to 28 countries in 2015; 22 visits to 20 countries in 2016; and 19 visits to 15 countries in 2017.

President Erdoğan also paid attention to the local visits on the relevant dates.

He visited Turkey’s certain provinces more than once, including Antalya, Rize, Kayseri, Gaziantep, Trabzon, Kocaeli, Konya, Balıkesir, Bursa, Çanakkale, İzmir, Malatya, Mardin and Şanlıurfa.

Erdoğan paid 147 official visits to 65 provinces in total.