Editing President of Turkey (section)

==History==
The office of the President was established with the proclamation of the republic on 29 October 1923. In the voting held on the same day, [[Mustafa Kemal Atatürk]] was unanimously elected as the first president. From this date until 2014, all presidents except [[Kenan Evren]] were elected by the Turkish Grand National Assembly.

Among the former presidents, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, [[İsmet İnönü]] and [[Celâl Bayar]] served as presidents affiliated with a political party. Atatürk and İnönü continued to serve as both the chairman and the president of the [[Republican People's Party]], while Celâl Bayar resigned from the [[Democrat Party (Turkey, 1946–1961)|Democrat Party]] chairmanship when he started his presidency, but continued to be a party member during his presidency.

With the 1961 Constitution made after the 1960 coup, it was decided that presidents should cut off any relation with political parties. Evren, who was governing the country as the head of state and the head of the National Security Council after the 1980 coup, was appointed to the Presidency on 7 November 1982, when the constitution was adopted by popular vote, in accordance with the first provisional article of the 1982 Constitution.

With the 2007 constitutional amendment referendum, it was decided that the president would be elected by the people, and in the first elections held on 10 August 2014 after this change, [[Recep Tayyip Erdoğan]] was elected president by the people. The president, who is the head of state, is also the head of government after the 2017 constitutional amendment referendum.