Political Leader Success in Turkiye

By Turkiye Raporu 

December 2022

Every month, we ask our respondents to rank the Success Score of Politicians in order to measure how successful the
society finds the party leaders. According to the November results, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan remains
at the top of the list with 5.2 points.

He is followed by İYİ Party leader Akşener with 4 points and MHP leader Bahçeli with 3.7 points. CHP leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu is in fourth place with 3.6 points.

Compared to last month, Erdoğan’s success score increased from 5.1 to 5.2, while Akşener’s score rose from 3.8 to 4.
The success scores of Kılıçdaroğlu and Bahçeli remained the same.

Since July, Erdoğan’s success score has increased while Kılıçdaroğlu’s has been on the decline for the last three months.

On the other hand, the success score of Erkan Baş, the chairman of the Workers’ Party of Turkey, increased by 0.3 points. It is worth noting that respondents only gave points to leaders they know this month.