Preceded by Hayrunnisa Gul Nationality Turkish Name Emine Erdogan | Religion Sunni Islam Full Name Emine Gulbaran | |
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Born 16 February 1955 (age 69) Siirt, Turkey ( 1955-02-16 ) Role Recep Tayyip Erdogan\'s wife Spouse Recep Tayyip Erdogan (m. 1978) Children Sumeyye Erdogan, Necmettin Bilal Erdogan, Ahmet Burak Erdogan, Esra Erdogan Grandchildren Omer Tayyip Erdogan, Ali Tahir Erdogan Similar People Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Sumeyye Erdogan, Ahmet Burak Erdogan, Necmettin Bilal Erdogan, Hayrunnisa Gul | ||
The Queen meets Turkey's President Erdogan at Buckingham Palace
Emine Erdoğan, Kim Jung sook İle Görüştü
Emine Erdoğan (née Gülbaran; born 16 February 1956) is the wife of President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
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Biography
Emine Erdoğan was born in Üsküdar, Istanbul. She is of ethnic Arab descent, her family comes from the south-eastern province of Siirt and the youngest child of a family of five children. She attended Mithat Paşa Akşam Art School, but left before graduation.
Erdoğan joined the "Idealist Women's Association". During these activities she met Recep Tayyip Erdoğan at a conference. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Emine Gülbaran married on 4 February 1978. The couple has four children: Ahmet Burak Erdoğan, Sümeyye, who married defense industrialist engineer Selçuk Bayraktar in May 2016, Necmettin Bilal, and Esra.
Political life
On 7 December 2010, Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani conferred the Pakistani Nishan-e-Pakistan on Emine Erdoğan, in recognition of her personal efforts for the flood-stricken people of Pakistan. In October 2010, Erdoğan visited Pakistan and the flood hit areas to personally witness the devastation caused by the floods and contributed significantly in the fund-raising campaign to help the country’s flood victims.
On 16 February 2011, Emine Erdoğan was presented with the "Prix de la Fondation" by the Crans Montana Forum at a ceremony in Brussels.
First Lady Erdogan played an active role in opposing Turkey's child marriage bill, stating clearly that "Forced child marriage is clearly unacceptable under any conditions".