Ahmet Davutoğlu

Ahmet Davutoğlu (2013)

Ahmet Davutoğlu [ ahˈmet ˈdavutoːɫu ] (born February 26, 1959 in Taşkent , Konya ) is a Turkish political scientist and politician . He is the founder and chairman of the Gelecek Partisi .

He was Chairman of the Justice and Recovery Party (AKP) and Prime Minister of Turkey from August 2014 to May 2016 . On May 5, 2016, Davutoğlu declared that he no longer wanted to run for the AKP's party leadership at the AKP's special party conference on May 22, and after the election of his successor in the party leadership, he resigned as prime minister on May 22.

life and career

Ahmet Davutoğlu was born in 1959 to the couple Mehmet and Memnune Davutoğlu. His mother died unexpectedly when he was only four years old; his father - a shoemaker - married a second time. In addition to Turkish, Davutoğlu also speaks English, Arabic and German. He is married to the gynecologist and obstetrician Sare Davutoğlu, with whom he has four children.

Davutoğlu attended İstanbul Lisesi and the Faculty of Economics and Political Science of the Bosphorus University . Davutoğlu wrote his master's thesis at the Institute for State Administration and his dissertation at the Institute for Political Science and International Relations at the same university. Between 1990 and 1995 he worked at Marmara University . In 1993 he became a lecturer and in 1999 a professor. Davutoğlu was head of the Institute for International Relations at Beykent University .

After the AKP's election victory in 2002 , he became chief adviser to the party leader and later Prime Minister Erdoğan on foreign policy. By resolution of the Turkish President Ahmet Necdet Sezer and Prime Minister Abdullah Gül on January 17, 2003, he was also appointed Ambassador-at-Large.

On May 1, 2009, the Prime Minister announced the cabinet revision and Davutoğlu became Foreign Minister, succeeding Ali Babacan . He is considered to be the strongest representative of neo-Omanism and a new multidimensional Turkish foreign policy . His work "Strategic Depth" (Stratejik Derinlik) is considered the standard work of this new foreign policy.

On August 27, 2014, he was elected as the new leader of the ruling Justice and Recovery Party (AKP). On August 28, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan commissioned him to form a government and on August 29, the Davutoğlu I cabinet took office. The Davutoğlu II cabinet was an “electoral cabinet” that existed from August 28 to November 24, 2015 for the preparation and implementation of the new parliamentary elections in November 2015 after a government could not be formed after the parliamentary elections in Turkey in June 2015 . In the new election in November, the AKP again won an absolute majority with Davutoğlu and the Davutoğlu III cabinet was formed. Prime Minister Davutoğlu's authority was in competition with President Erdoğan's claim to power, who wants to introduce a presidential system of government in Turkey , which in early May 2016 led to speculation in the international press about Davutoğlu's resignation. At the beginning of May 2016, those around the president publicly criticized the work of Prime Minister and party leader Davutoğlu. On May 5, Davutoğlu announced that he would no longer run for party chairmanship at the AKP's special party conference on May 22, which also meant his withdrawal from the post of prime minister due to the AKP's statutes. He justified this with differences in the party executive committee, but has not yet commented on the background. On May 22nd, Binali Yıldırım was elected as the new party leader of the AKP and Davutoğlu officially submitted his resignation as prime minister.

On September 13, 2019, Davutoğlu announced that he had resigned from the AKP because it had deviated too much from its original values. At the same time he announced that he wanted to found a new party with other former AKP politicians. A few days earlier, the AKP had announced that disciplinary proceedings had been opened against some party members around Davutoğlu.

Gelecek Partisi , chaired by Davutoğlu, was founded on December 12, 2019 .

Works

Alternative Paradigms: The impact of Islamic and Western Weltanschauungs on political theory . University Press of America, Lanham 1993, ISBN 0-8191-9046-2 .
Civilizational transformation and the Muslim world . Mahir, Kuala Lumpur 1994, ISBN 983-70-0313-8 .
Stratejik Derinlik: Türkiye'nin Uluslararası Konumu . Küre Yayınları, Istanbul 2001, ISBN 975-6614-00-5 .
Küresel Bunalım: 11 Eylül konuşmaları . Küre Yayınları, Istanbul 2002, ISBN 975-6614-07-2 .