List of international prime ministerial trips made by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Country Areas visited Date ( s )
Spain Granada , Madrid January 13-16
Germany Berlin , Cologne , Ludwigshafen , Munich February 7-10
Bosnia and Herzegovina Ilidža , Sarajevo March 25-26
Bulgaria Kardzhali , Sofia , Targovishte March 27-28
Sweden Stockholm April 2-3
Qatar Doha April 13-15
Syria Damascus April 26
Lebanon Beirut May 25-26
Azerbaijan Nakhchivan Nakhchivan City June 3-4
Iraq Baghdad July 10
France Paris July 13
Northern Cyprus Nicosia July 18-20
Russia Moscow August 13
Georgia Tbilisi August 14
Azerbaijan Baku August 20
Syria Damascus September 4
Turkmenistan Ashgabat October 3-4
United States New York City , Washington , D.C November 13-15
Switzerland Geneva November 17-18
India New Delhi , Bangalore November 20-24
2008
Erdoğan ( Left ) with Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon ( Center ) , and Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero ( Right ) in Spain , January 15 , 2008
This is a list of international prime ministerial trips made by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the 27th Prime Minister of Turkey, after winning the elections of November 2, 2002 and until he became the 12th President of Turkey on August 28, 2014. The summary includes trips made since he ascended to the Presidency. The official residence and principal workplace of the Prime Minister of Turkey is the Başbakanlık Konutu, in Ankara. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has made the largest number of trips to Germany, with the United States being the second most visited country partly due to attendance of meetings of the United Nations and other international organizations. The third most visited country is Belgium, due to issues concerning the European Union. The fourth most visited country by Erdoğan is the neighbouring Azerbaijan. Recep Tayyip Erdogan has conducted 300 trips during the course of his premiership.