There is such a thing as governing for too long. After about ten years in post, politicians’ once natural feel for the nation’s pulse instead starts to rub the electorate the wrong way. Thatcher, Blair and de Gaulle all saw their time run out.
What about Recep Tayyip Erdoğan? He has led Turkey since 2003 as prime minister and since 2014 as president.
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