Making a Determination from the Operational Code of a New and Influential Actor: President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Abstract

Lack of sufficient and fulfilling information about new political actors who have key positions on the international stage, makes the task of explaining and predicting their choices much more complicated. With the help of Operational Code analysis it is possible to provide the missing information. Thus the main purpose of this article is to understand the behavioural pattern of a relatively new political actor by using Operational Code. Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has become one of the most prominent political leader in Turkey due to his political methods, manners, decisions and his deep impact on political processes, has been analyzed primarily for being a relatively "new actor" compared to his antecedents. Secondarily Erdogan is a unique leader who has overcomed a serious crisis of survival of his country during 15 July failed coup d'etat. For all those aforementioned reasons, Operational Code of Erdogan is the main argument of this paper.