List of international prime ministerial trips made by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

This is a list of international prime ministerial trips made by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the 25th Prime Minister of Turkey, after he assumed the premiership on March 14, 2003 and until he became the 12th President of Turkey on August 28, 2014.

The third most visited country is Belgium, due to issues concerning the accession of Turkey to the European Union.

Erdogan won the elections of November 2002, but was obstructed to become prime minister until the by-election in March 2003.

Although, Erdogan was not the Prime Minister during that period, he still served as the de facto leader of Turkey.

During this period, his visits were done in the framework of accession of Turkey to the European Union As Prime Minister:

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan meets with US President Barack Obama at the Oval Office , White House, December 7, 2009.
Map of international trips made by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as prime minister:
Visited countries
Turkey
Erdoğan during a visit in Denmark , November 26, 2002
Erdogan meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin
Erdogan at the Annual Meeting 2004 of the World Economic Forum in Davos , Switzerland , January 24, 2004.
Erdogan with U.S. President George W. Bush in the Oval Office , 2005
Erdogan at the Annual Meeting 2006 of the World Economic Forum in Davos , Switzerland , January 27, 2006.
Erdogan meeting the Italian President Giorgio Napolitano in Rome , November 7, 2007
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Erdoğan (Left) with Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon (Center), and Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (Right) in Spain, January 15, 2008
Erdoğan speaking at the University of Oxford , April 3, 2009
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Brazil, May 27, 2010
Erdoğan (center) at an opening ceremony in Cairo with Ertuğrul Günay (left) and Ahmet Davutoğlu (right) as part of the Arab Spring tour, September 12, 2011
Cabinets of Spain and Turkey in Madrid, November 27, 2012
Erdoğan and Obama during bilateral meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House, May 16, 2013
High-Level Russian-Turkish Cooperation Council in St.Petersburg, November 22, 2013