Security incidents involving Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the 12th president of Turkey, was involved in multiple security incidents, including several assassination threats and plots, starting from when he became a prime minister in 2003.

[3] Prime Minister Erdoğan, who went to Kütahya on September 12, 2005, to open the new academic year, was approached by gunmen Mustafa Bağdat.

According to the statement, when they arrived at the Ilgaz Mountain Soğuksu location, unidentified people opened fire from inside the forest at the police escort going approximately 50–60 meters in front of the campaign bus of Erdogan.

[6] Before Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan's Şırnak rally on May 24, a bomb was defused on the 36th kilometer of the Nusaybin Cizre highway.

[8] On May 31, 2014, a guy named Ferhat Yıldız tried to shoot Prime Minister Erdogan from close range as he left a rally of his AK Party.

In the indictment, Ferhat Yıldız was requested to be imprisoned for the crimes of "premeditated attempt to kill a person due to his public duty" and "purchasing, carrying or possessing unlicensed firearms and bullets".

They are accused of attacking a hotel in the resort city of Marmaris where Erdogan was staying on the night of the coup, killing two policemen.

According to the Turkish news agency DHA, one of them is the US-based influential cleric Fethullah Gülen, whom Erdogan holds primarily responsible for the attempted coup.

[10] The Greek newspaper To Vima published an article that nine members from Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front (DHKP-C) were plotting to attack President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan during his visit to Greece.