Government of Turkey

The Government of Turkey (Turkish: Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Hükûmeti) is the national government of Turkey. It is governed as a unitary state under a presidentialrepresentative democracy and a constitutionalrepublic within a pluriformmulti-party system. The term government can mean either the collective set of institutions (the executive, legislative, and judicial branches) or specifically the Cabinet (the executive).

In its multi-party system era, the longest-governing and still governing party is the AK Party under former Prime Minister and now President, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. He abolished the Parliamentary system in favour of a Presidential system with the controversial 2017 Turkish constitutional referendum.

However, as of 2026, there have been concerns from the European Union regarding the state of the Copenhagen criteria and democracy in Turkey, which ended up indefinitely pausing Turkey's EU membership talks. Freedom House has considered Turkey not free since at least 2017. The end of Turkey's EU membership talks contributed to the abolishment of the Ministry of the EU from the Turkish cabinet, along with cabinets that were abolished or reshuffled after the 2013 corruption scandal in Turkey.