Turkey on the 12 axes
MOPGMarket ModernizerPragmatic, open to the world, run by what works.Turkey is typed MOPG, the Market Modernizer. Structure is its strongest lean, Central, closely followed by Authority at Strong leader. The Liberal Democracy Index is 0.11 and judicial constraints on the executive score 0.20, both on a 0-1 scale (2025), and the prison population is 468 per 100,000 people (2026). Welfare leans Self-reliant, with public social spending at 10% of GDP (2024). Markets lean Planned and Security leans Order. Ownership, Religion, Trade and Foreign policy all sit at or near the centre.
Saudi Arabia is the closest country at 79%. Both lean Strong leader and Central, but Saudi Arabia leans fully Religious on Religion and Traditional on Morality, while Turkey sits at the centre on Religion and leans Progressive on Morality. See how its politicians and historical figures compare on the page, or take the test to see how close you are to this profile.
Where Turkey sits
- PublicPrivate
- 02Markets-30PlannedFree
- 03Welfare+40SharedSelf-reliant
- 04Authority+80DemocraticStrong leader
- 05Security+35LibertyOrder
- 06Structure+90LocalCentral
- 07Morality-25ProgressiveTraditional
- SecularReligious
- 09Technology-10EmbraceCaution
- 10Culture-10MulticulturalNational identity
- 11Trade-10GlobalProtected
- CooperationStrength
Scores come from laws, budgets and institutional indexes, not from polls or the party in power. How country profiles are built
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Each percentage compares a person's documented positions with the country's current profile, on the axes both have on record. A high score means their views match the status quo. A low one means they would change more.
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What is Turkey's type on the 12 axes?
Read from its laws and institutions, Turkey comes out as MOPG (Market Modernizer). The type takes one letter per family of three axes: Economy, State, Society and World. It describes how the country is governed, not what its people think.
Which figure from Turkey is closest to how it is governed today?
Of the people from Turkey profiled here, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk sits closest to its current policy profile, at 77% on the axes both have on record.
Which countries are governed most like Turkey?
On the 12 axes, Saudi Arabia is closest at 79%, followed by Hungary at 78%. The comparison uses the same country profiles as the country match on your 12 Axes result.