Ahmet Davutoglu, former Prime Minister of Turkiye and once a leading figure in the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), has announced he is stepping down from politics and dissolving his Future Party (Gelecek Partisi) this week.

Davutoglu's political career began after the November 2002 election that brought the AKP to power, when he joined the party and became chief adviser to the prime minister. He served as foreign minister from 2009 to 2014 and then as prime minister after Recep Tayyip Erdogan became president in 2014.

Following the AKP's failure to secure a parliamentary majority in the June 2015 elections—the party's first such setback since 2002—Davutoglu engaged in coalition talks with the Republican People’s Party (CHP) and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP).

In September 2019, Davutoglu resigned from the AKP and announced plans to launch his own party. By December 2019, he had established the Future Party as a conservative but pro-democracy alternative to the AKP during an event in Ankara.

Davutoglu was also instrumental in shaping Turkiye’s policy after the 2011 Syrian uprising, supporting rebels opposed to Bashar al-Assad’s government, which he described as morally justified.

On Wednesday, July 30th, 2026, Davutoglu declared the dissolution of the Future Party and his withdrawal from political life.

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