Worst ruler of your country?

My country is Turkey, which is the successor state to the Ottoman Empire. Although we never had a scarcity of bad leaders, I'd say the worst ever were the Ittihat ve Terakki Cemiyeti (Comittee of Union and Progress-CUP) triumvirate (Jemal, Talat, Enver Pashas) that ruled the Ottoman Empire from 1908 to 1918.

In just 10 years, they oppressed the people, tried to Turkify the Arabs and other minorities, ethnically cleansed the Armenians, caused the Empire to join the World War on the German side after Germany was engaged in two-front war (which according to the German high command meant no chance of victory). They were also tyrannical governors and incompetitive military leaders, when they took the matters directly in their hands. Enver's disregard for logistics caused the non-combat loss of 90000 troops in a counter-offensive in the mountains of Eastern Turkey (they came from the desert, equipped for desert warfare and froze to death at -30 degrees celcius). In the end the 600-year-old Empire collapsed and partitioned between the Allies, and Istanbul and Anatolia were under occupation. The peoples of Turkey (mainly Turks and Kurds), already devastated by numerous wars, had to fight yet another war- and this time for independence- because of that.

Not that I'd like to have the OE live to this day, but the events of the early 20th century left Turkey devastated, Middle East Arabs divided and colonised. Turkey was spared colonial rule, partly due to the actions of the Turkish nationalists led by Mustafa Kemal, and partly due to the fact that there is no oil to speak of in Turkey. The Empire could have been dismantled in a better way, and the good aspects (tolerance for minorities) could have been retained for the new Turkish nation-state, but unfortunately many negative aspects of the CUP rule were continued to this day in Turkish political life.

bah my post died ! I have to re-post!

ok I had two

Andrew Jackson= abloished bank of America, genocide against Native Americans, massive tariffs.

George Bush II= cut troop pay while sending them into combat, uses terrorists and fear for political gain, is a religious extremist who shares more in common with Osama than myself and lotsa corruption.  The decline and fall of America has begun.

Other crappy rulers are Franklin Pierce, James Buchana, Warren G Harding, and of course George III king of England.

İsmet İn�n� was a type of dictator, his succesors, the DP headed by Adnan Menderes was too corrupted (and too American-oriented).

But İn�n� and his Post-Atat�rk CHP was quiet corrupted.

Yet, I can say the most corrupted governments in Turkey were those coalitions in the last decade

Oh Tobodai, you beat me. I was gonna say Jackson.

Anyway I don't think Dubya's that bad of a leader in fact his politics further my personal agenda.

Buchanan. James Buchanan. He just sat on his behind while the Southern states seceded and dumped the problem on Lincoln. This alone would make him worst.

Jackson was one of the best U.S. Presidents. At least he had guts to stand up to South Carolina when it attempted nullification. He was a strong president, and compared to other 19th century mediocrities, he was one of the best.

At least Carter and Bush didn't just make the U.S. weak like Buchanan.

As for Bush, you have to wait for a period of time to past to heap judgement on him. It's too early. Wait 20 years or so after his death to see if he really is the worst U. S. President (I don't think he is one of the worst, but I'm still reserving judgement).  Remember, in his time, Warren Harding in his time as president was considered one of the best Presidents, and Franklin Roosevelt in the 1930s and Lincoln at the height of the Civil War was considered by many as one of the worst.

I can't say he was particulairly bad.  Far worst was Molroony - High deficits and GST need I say more. As to alinating the west no one did more than Tredeau with the National energy program.

What do you mean?

The only good thing he did was to prevent Turkey from entering WWII. Apart from that, what good did he do really?

(Though I'm not interested in Recent Turkish History...)

I'll be nice and reserve judgement, although I definitely think he's going to be in the running.

I'll offically say Hoover.  When the stock market collapsed and put millions out of work, he did almost nothing.