President-elect Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s inauguration ceremony — planned to be “one of a kind” with a number of leaders from around the world reportedly having been invited 
will not be as high as has been planned, as many leaders have opted to send lower level representatives.
The exact list of invitees and leaders who have confirmed their attendance at the event has not been shared with the press in order to avoid possible public embarrassment or criticism in the media.
US President Barack Obama has announced that the outgoing chargé d’affaires at the US Embassy in Ankara, Jess Bailey, will be attending the inauguration ceremony of President-elect Erdoğan on Thursday. Bailey is expected to leave Turkey shortly after the ceremony. There is currently no ambassador at the US Embassy in Ankara, as the previous ambassador, Francis Ricciardone, completed his term and left the country in July.
Not only is Obama himself not coming to President-elect Erdoğan’s inauguration ceremony, but US Secretary of State John Kerry is not representing the US, either.
According to the Turkish press, the leaders of Egypt and Israel are not among those who were invited. An Egyptian Embassy official on Wednesday told Today’s Zaman that the embassy, for now, cannot answer the question of whether Egypt has been invited to the ceremony or not. The Erdoğan government has been critical of Egypt since the overthrow of Egypt’s first democratically elected president, Mohammed Morsi, in July 2013.
Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad has not been invited to the ceremony either, as Turkey does not recognize him as the legitimate leader of Syria. However, the president of the National Coalition of Syrian Revolution and Opposition Forces, Hadi al-Bahra, has been invited.
China Minister of Water Resources Chen Lei is also going to be attending the ceremony as the special representative of the president of China.