# Recep Tayyip Erdoğan birth chart: conflicting birth times

> Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's birth chart for February 26, 1954, Istanbul: the versions of the time conflict, rated DD, so the chart is cast for noon without houses.

URL: https://kb.astroway.info/en/people/recep-tayyip-erdogan

Birth data: 1954-02-26, unknown, Kasımpaşa, Beyoğlu, Istanbul, Turkey; Rodden rating DD.

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was born on February 26, 1954, in the Istanbul neighbourhood of Kasımpaşa, to a family from Rize province; his father was a coastal ship captain. His birth time is known only from conflicting versions, so the chart is cast for noon. Its most visible features are a Pisces stellium and Mars in Sagittarius on the star Antares.

## What is known and what is not

The official biography on the Turkish presidency's website gives February 26, 1954, Istanbul, and mentions the Kasımpaşa Piyale primary school. Memurlar.net and Wikidata name Kasımpaşa, in the Beyoğlu district, as the birthplace. The coordinates are those of that neighbourhood.

No birth time appears in the official biography, in the Turkish press or in the words of Erdoğan or his family. Astrology databases carry these versions:

- 4:25 a.m.: Manfred Gregor took this time from the Turkish astrology website astrolojikozmik.com, original source unknown. The archived 2013 copy of the page shows no time, only a chart with an Ascendant; this time gives an Ascendant of about 18° Capricorn. It is listed by Astro-Databank and Astrotheme;
- 3:45 p.m.: the Turkish astrologer Wotan cites a mutual friend, reportedly passing on Erdoğan's own words. This is third-hand data, which Astro-Databank rates C. Ascendant about 14° Leo;
- 3:48 a.m.: rectification by astrologer Starkman (3:47:36 a.m.), Capricorn Ascendant;
- Leo Ascendant: rectification by the Turkish astrologer Öner Döşer with no published minute; the forum page Astro-Databank links to no longer opens.

The versions put the Ascendant in either Capricorn or Leo, and none has a document behind it. The chart therefore carries [Rodden rating](/en/methodology#rodden) DD, and we take none of the versions as the main time.

The chart is cast for 12:00 noon Eastern European Time (UTC+2), which Istanbul kept in February 1954. It has no houses, Ascendant or MC (more on [charts without a time](/en/methodology#unknown-time)). We do not give the Moon's degree, but its sign is certain: the Moon stayed in Sagittarius all day.

## A Pisces stellium

The Sun at 7°16′ Pisces, Mercury at 13°12′ Pisces and Venus at 13°55′ Pisces form a [stellium](/en/aspects/patterns/stellium). Mercury and Venus are in [conjunction](/en/aspects/conjunction) with an orb of 0°42′, with Mercury retrograde. In the classical scheme Venus is exalted in Pisces and Mercury is in its fall. Tradition links Pisces with sensitivity to people's mood, with faith and with the ability to speak in images and feelings.

Venus sits 0°43′ from [Achernar](/en/fixed-stars/achernar), the star at the end of the river Eridanus. Ptolemy does not list it, and the nature of Jupiter was attached to it by later tradition.

## Mars in Sagittarius on Antares

Mars at 9°02′ Sagittarius sits 0°03′ from [Antares](/en/fixed-stars/antares), the red royal star of Scorpius. Ptolemy gave Antares the nature of Mars with some of Jupiter, and astrologers link it with intensity.

The Sun is in [square](/en/aspects/square) to Mars with an orb of 1°45′. Pisces and Sagittarius are both mutable signs, and tradition reads a Sun-Mars square as energy, drive and directness.

## Trines to Saturn and Jupiter on Rigel

The Sun forms a [trine](/en/aspects/trine) to Saturn at 9°16′ Scorpio with an orb of 2°00′, and Mercury trines Saturn with an orb of 3°56′. Tradition reads a water trine as endurance and the ability to hold a chosen course for a long time.

Jupiter at 16°50′ Gemini sits 0°39′ from [Rigel](/en/fixed-stars/rigel), the star in Orion's foot, to which Ptolemy gave the nature of Jupiter and Saturn. Jupiter squares Venus with an orb of 2°55′, which ties it to the Pisces stellium.

## Neptune square Chiron

The tightest aspect in the chart joins Neptune at 25°49′ Libra and Chiron at 25°54′ Capricorn: a square with an orb of 0°05′. Chiron is conjunct the North Node at 22°59′ Capricorn with an orb of 2°54′. Neptune squares the Node with an orb of 2°49′, so Neptune presses on both points at once. Astrologers link a Neptune-Chiron square with vulnerability lived through ideals and faith, and since both planets are slow, many people of the same age share it.

## Events often compared with the chart

- 1994: elected Mayor of Istanbul.
- December 12, 1997: reads a poem in a public speech in Siirt; according to the official biography, he was sentenced for it, lost the mayoralty and spent four months in prison.
- August 14, 2001: founds the Justice and Development Party (AK Parti) and becomes its founding chairman.
- March 15, 2003: takes office as Prime Minister (the date in the official biography).
- August 10, 2014: elected the 12th President of Turkey in the first direct presidential election, in the first round.
- July 9, 2018: sworn in as the first President under the presidential system of government.
- May 28, 2023: re-elected President in the second round with 52.18% of the vote.

These dates are given as starting points for your own work with transits. We do not make predictions about the health, court cases or future elections of living people.