Turkish order of precedence

The Turkish order of precedence, the following is the list of Turkish order of precedence approved by the President of Turkey and administered by the Directorate of Protocols of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.[1] This is a hierarchy of officials in the Turkish Republic used to direct protocol for domestic ceremonies, hence it does not involve any foreign dignitaries. It also does not contain the President of Turkey, since he is the head of the state and assumed to be at the top of the list naturally.

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
President of Turkey
(2014 - present)

Turkish order of precedence list

1. Speaker of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey (Mustafa Şentop)
2. Vice President of Turkey (Fuat Oktay)
3. President of the Constitutional Court
4. Former presidents:
   1. Ahmet Necdet Sezer (2000-2007)
   2. Abdullah Gül (2007-2014)
5. First President of the Court of Cassation
6. President of the Council of State
7. Ministers of the Government
8. Chief of the Turkish General Staff
9. Commanders of the Turkish Armed Forces
10. Generals/Admirals
11. President of the Council of Higher Education
12. Leader of the Main Opposition Party
13. Deputy Speaker of the Grand National Assembly
14. Leaders of the political parties that have groups in the Parliament
15. Clerk members and administrative members of the Parliament
16. Leaders of the political parties that are represented in the Parliament
17. Chairperson and Deputy Chairman's of the political party groups in the Parliament
18. Deputy Chairpersons of the political parties that have groups in the Parliament
19. General Secretaries of the political parties that have groups in the Parliament
20. Members of the Parliament
21. President of the Court of Accounts
22. Chief Public Prosecutor of the Court of Cassation
23. President of the Turkish Bars Association
24. Chief Prosecutor of the Council of State
25. Deputy Presidents of the Constitutional Court
26. President of the Court of Jurisdictional Disputes
27. Justices of the Constitutional Court
28. Deputy First Presidents of the Court of Cassation
29. Deputy President of the Council of State
30. Deputy President of the Council of Judges and Prosecutors
31. Deputy Chief Public Prosecutor of the Court of Cassation
32. President of the Supreme Electoral Council
33. President of the High Council of Arbitrators
34. General Secretary of the National Security Council
35. President of the National Intelligence Organization
36. President of the State Supervisory Council
37. President of Strategy and Budget
38. President of the Defense Industries
39. President of the Directorate of Communications
40. President of the Directorate of Religious Affairs
41. President of the Directorate of State Archives
42. President of the Directorate of National Palaces
43. President of the Directorate of Presidential Administrative Affairs
44. General Secretary of the Parliament
45. Deputy ministers
46. Deputy Presidents of the Policy Boards under the Presidency
47. Chief Auditor of the Ombudsman Institution
48. Governor of Ankara
49. Members of the Council of Higher Education
50. Rectors of universities in Ankara
51. Commander of the Garrison of Ankara
52. Mayor of Ankara Metropolitan Municipality
53. Lieutenant generals/Vice admirals
54. Presidents of the Office of the Presidency
55. President of the Atatürk High Institution of Culture, Language and History
56. President of the Radio and Television Supreme Council
57. President of the Turkish Academy of Sciences
58. Governor of the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey
59. President of the Competition Authority
60. President of the Privatization Administration
61. Chairperson of the Capital Markets Board
62. Deputy General Secretaries of the Parliament
63. Major generals/Rear admirals
64. Court of Cassation of Department Heads and members
65. Council of State of Department Heads and members
66. Court of Accounts of Department Heads and members
67. President of the State Personnel Authority
68. President of the Turkey Energy, Nuclear and Mining Research Institute
69. President of the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey
70. Deputy Rectors of Universities in Ankara
71. Members of the Supreme Electoral Council
72. Members of the State Supervisory Council
73. Auditors of the Ombudsman Institution
74. Brigadier generals/Commodores
75. General Secretary of the Council of Higher Education
76. President of the Turkish Statistical Institute
77. General Manager of the Anadolu Agency
78. General Manager of the Turkish Radio Television Corporation
79. General Manager of the Meteorology
80. Director General of Foundations
81. General Director of Land Deeds and Cadastral
82. General Managers of the Ministry
83. Deans and Deputy Deans of the faculties of the universities in Ankara
84. Heads of Professional Organizations in the nature of public institutions in Ankara
85. Heads of Civil and Military Associations

See also

• Politics of Turkey
• Women in Turkish politics
• Order of precedence

References

1. Başkent Protokolü Öndegelim Listesi (in Turkish), Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Dışişleri Bakanlığı, 2008-05-08, archived from the original on 2009-02-07, retrieved 2009-07-30