Davutoğlu, Ahmet

Autor: Davutoğlu, Ahmet
Rok: 1959-
Oblast působnosti: ekonomové, politologové, politici

Biogr./Hist. údaje: Turecký ekonom, politolog a politik (od srpna 2014 předseda vlády). Autor prací z oblasti zahraniční politiky a mezinárodních vztahů.
Zdroj: Autoritní databáze Národní knihovny ČR

Ahmet Davutoğlu (Turkish pronunciation: [ahˈmet daˈvutoːɫu]; born 26 February 1959) is a Turkish academic, politician and former diplomat who has been the Prime Minister of Turkey since 28 August 2014 and as the leader of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) since 27 August 2014. He previously served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2009 to 2014 and as chief advisor to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan from 2003 to 2009. He was elected as an AKP Member of Parliament for Konya in the 2011 general election.Following the election of serving Prime Minister and AKP leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as the 12th President of Turkey, Davutoğlu was announced by the AKP Central Executive Committee as a candidate for the party leadership. He was unanimously elected as leader unopposed during the first AKP extraordinary congress and consequently succeed Erdoğan as prime minister, forming the 62nd Government of the Turkish Republic. His cabinet has been dominated by Erdoğan's close allies such as Yalçın Akdoğan, leading to speculation that he will take a docile approach as prime minister while Erdoğan continues to pursue his political agenda as president. in the June 2015 general election, the AKP lost its parliamentary majority in Parliament though remained as the largest party. Davutoğlu's government subsequently resigned but stayed in power until a new government could be formed. After presiding over a series of unsuccessful coalition negotiations with opposition parties, Davutoğlu was tasked with forming Turkey's first-ever interim election government, which would preside over snap elections scheduled for November 2015.Davutoğlu's premiership has presided over the ongoing political conflict between the government and the Gülen Movement and the spillover effects of the Syrian Civil War across the border with Turkey. Although his foreign policy outlook has been described as Neo-Ottoman or Pan-Islamist, Davutoğlu has made Turkey's ascension bid to the European Union a strategic target for his government. He has been criticised for failing to tackle political corruption and for growing government authoritarianism, with opposition commentators accusing his government of turning Turkey into a police state after new security measures were enacted to curb protests in October 2014. Davutoğlu's policy of perceived inaction against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) terrorist organisation was criticised internationally, though his government authorised airstrikes against both ISIL and Kurdish rebels in the summer of 2015 after a suicide bombing in Suruç killed 32 people, bringing an end to a ceasefire that had been in place since December 2012.