Today's Inauguration Ceremony for President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will be attended by approximately 100 foreign guests from a total of 81 countries, including 50 heads of state and government.
Visiting Presidents
President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan, President Kassym Jomart Tokayev of Kazakhstan, President Sadyr Japarov of Kyrgyzstan, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev of Uzbekistan, President Serdar Berdimuhamedov of Turkmenistan, President Ersin Tatar of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, President Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela, President Rumen Radev of Bulgaria, President Jakov Milatović of Montenegro, President Vjosa Osmani-Sadriu of Kosovo, President Stevo Pendarovski of North Macedonia, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud of Somalia, President Macky Sall of Senegal, President Paul Kagame of Rwanda, President Faure Gnassingbe of Togo, President Denis Sassou N'Guesso of Congo, President Ali Bongo Ondimba of Gabon, President Umaro Sissoco Embaló of Guinea-Bissau, President Mohammad Shahabuddin Chuppu of Bangladesh, President Mamady Doumbouya of Guinea will attend the ceremony..
Five representatives from Bosnia and Herzegovina and four from the TRNC to participate
The President Milorad Dodik of Republika Srpska, Chairperson of the Presidential Council Željka Cvijanović, Members of the Presidential Council Željko Komšić and Denis Bećirović, as well as former Presidential Council Member Bakir Izetbegović will also attend the ceremony from Bosnia and Herzegovina.
In addition to President Ersin Tatar of TRNC, Prime Minister Unal Üstel of TRNC, Parliament Speaker Zorlu Töre of TRNC and former President Derviş Eroğlu of TRNC will also attend the ceremony.
President Nechirvan Barzani of the IKRG and Bashkan Irina Vlah of the Autonomous Territorial Unit of Gagauzia will also participate in the ceremony.
Iran, Angola, Equatorial Guinea, and the Maldives will be represented at the ceremony by Vice Presidents, and Mali by the President of the National Transitional Council.
Prime Ministers
Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan, Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh of the Government of National Unity of Libya, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif of Pakistan, Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz of Cuba, Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary, Prime Minister Dorin Recean of Moldova, Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili of Georgia, Prime Minister Najib Mikati of Lebanon, Prime Minister Kohir Rasulzoda of Tajikistan, Prime Minister Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed of Djibouti, Prime Minister Jean Michel Sama Lukonde of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Prime Minister Cleopas Dlamini of the Kingdom of Eswatini will also attend the ceremony.
Bahrain, Malaysia, Mongolia, Cambodia, Jordan, and Iraq will be represented at the ceremony by their respective Deputy Prime Ministers.
Parliament Speakers
In addition to Chairman Vyacheslav Viktorovich Volodin of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, the ceremony will be attended by the Parliament Speakers of Ukraine, Belarus, the United Arab Emirates, Palestine, Algeria, Morocco, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Oman, Burkina Faso, and Oman. The Vice Chairperson National People’s Congress of the People's Republic of China will also be present at the ceremony.
Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Greece, Egypt, Kuwait, Malta, Nicaragua, Serbia, Mozambique, Liberia, Chad, South Africa, Croatia, Tunisia, Japan, the Union of the Comoros, Zambia, Gambia, Romania, and South Sudan will also be represented at the ceremony.
Former Federal President Christian Wulff of Germany, former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder of Germany and former Prime Minister Carl Bildt of Sweden will also attend the ceremony.
Representatives of international organisations
The ceremony will be attended by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltelberg, the Secretary-General of the Organisation of Turkic States Kubanıçbek Ömüraliyev, the Secretary-General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation Hissein Ibrahim Taha, and representatives from the European Commission, the Gulf Cooperation Council, and the Black Sea Economic Cooperation Organisation.
Chairman Mustafa Karadayı of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms of Bulgaria will also attend the ceremony.