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.

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.



Turkish order of precedence list

 * 1) Speaker of the Grand National Assembly
 * 2) Vice President of Turkey
 * 3) Leader of the political party group with the most members in the Grand National Assembly
 * 4) Leader of the Main Opposition Party
 * 5) President of the Constitutional Court
 * 6) Former presidents
 * 7) First President of the Court of Cassation
 * 8) President of the Council of State
 * 9) Ministers of the Government (in alphabetical order of ministry names)
 * 10) Chief of the Turkish General Staff
 * 11) Commanders of the Turkish Armed Forces
 * 12) Generals/Admirals
 * 13) President of the Council of Higher Education
 * 14) Deputy Speaker of the Grand National Assembly
 * 15) Leaders of the political parties that have groups in the Parliament
 * 16) Clerk members and administrative members of the Parliament
 * 17) Leaders of the political parties that are represented in the Parliament
 * 18) Chairperson and Deputy Chairman's of the political party groups in the Parliament
 * 19) Deputy Chairpersons of the political parties that have groups in the Parliament
 * 20) General Secretaries of the political parties that have groups in the Parliament
 * 21) Members of the Parliament
 * 22) President of the Court of Accounts
 * 23) Chief Public Prosecutor of the Court of Cassation
 * 24) President of the Turkish Bars Association
 * 25) Chief Prosecutor of the Council of State
 * 26) Deputy Presidents of the Constitutional Court
 * 27) President of the Court of Jurisdictional Disputes
 * 28) Justices of the Constitutional Court
 * 29) Deputy First Presidents of the Court of Cassation
 * 30) Deputy President of the Council of State
 * 31) Deputy President of the Council of Judges and Prosecutors
 * 32) Deputy Chief Public Prosecutor of the Court of Cassation
 * 33) President of the Supreme Electoral Council
 * 34) President of the High Council of Arbitrators
 * 35) General secretary of the National Security Council
 * 36) President of the National Intelligence Organization
 * 37) President of the State Supervisory Council
 * 38) President of Strategy and Budget
 * 39) President of the Defense Industries
 * 40) President of the Directorate of Communications
 * 41) President of the Directorate of Religious Affairs
 * 42) President of the Directorate of State Archives
 * 43) President of the Directorate of National Palaces
 * 44) President of the Directorate of Presidential Administrative Affairs
 * 45) General Secretary of the Parliament
 * 46) Presidents of the Office of the Presidency
 * 47) Deputy ministers
 * 48) Chief Auditor of the Ombudsman Institution
 * 49) Governor of Ankara
 * 50) Rectors of universities in Ankara
 * 51) Commander of the Garrison of Ankara
 * 52) Mayor of Ankara Metropolitan Municipality
 * 53) Deputy Presidents of the Policy Boards under the Presidency
 * 54) Members of the Council of Higher Education
 * 55) Lieutenant generals/Vice admirals
 * 56) President of the Atatürk High Institution of Culture, Language and History
 * 57) President of the Radio and Television Supreme Council
 * 58) President of the Turkish Academy of Sciences
 * 59) Governor of the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey
 * 60) President of the Competition Authority
 * 61) President of the Privatization Administration
 * 62) Chairperson of the Capital Markets Board
 * 63) Deputy General Secretaries of the Parliament
 * 64) Major generals/Rear admirals
 * 65) Court of Cassation of Department Heads and members
 * 66) Council of State of Department Heads and members
 * 67) Court of Accounts of Department Heads and members
 * 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