Most significant positive evidence
The assessment records expanded health coverage, long-term poverty reduction, infrastructure development and Türkiye's hosting of one of the world's largest refugee populations.
Person
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
President and former prime minister of Türkiye. The assessment covers economic and health reforms, poverty reduction, refugee hosting, concentration of executive authority, repression after the attempted coup and continuing rule-of-law failures.
This is a contemporary assessment current to 26 June 2026. It must be revised as later conduct and evidence become available.
Ethical assessment categories
Current published result
Overall ethical score
-19.83
Reasoned summary
Major health, development and refugee-hosting achievements receive substantial positive weight. The overall assessment is negative because prolonged concentration of power and erosion of judicial and democratic safeguards undermine rights, justice and accountability.
This assessment presents six separate ethical dimensions rather than one overall moral score. Each result must be read with its evidence, plausible range, confidence, disputes, exclusions, severe-harm findings and sources.
Most significant negative evidence
The strongest negative evidence concerns democratic backsliding, executive domination of institutions, restrictions on media and opposition and refusal to implement binding European human-rights judgments.
Read the full Recep Tayyip Erdoğan ethical assessment, evidence and sources
Six-dimensional ethical profile
The overall figure is the equal-weight average of the applicable dimensions. It does not replace the separate scores, evidence or uncertainty.
- Personal moral conduct
- -30.00
- Rights and dignity
- -59.02
- Nonviolence and harm
- -52.00
- Stewardship of power
- +35.00
- Wisdom and truthfulness
- -7.27
- Consequential legacy
- -5.69
- Severe-harm record
- No separate finding recorded
Assessment history
Ethical assessment: Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (2003–2026)
2003–2026 · Published assessment · reviewed June 26, 2026
Result: Six-dimensional ethical profile