Turbay Family

	Turbay Family Turbay is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Claudia Turbay Quintero (born 1952), Colombian journalist and diplomat Diana Turbay (1950–1991), Colombian journalist Gabriel Turbay (1901–1947), Colombian diplomat and politician Julio César Turbay Ayala (1916–2005), former president of Colombia Julio César Turbay Quintero (born 1949), Colombian politician Nydia Quintero Turbay (born 1932), former First Lady of Colombia Paola Turbay Paola Turbay Gómez (born November 29, 1970) is a Colombian-American actress, model, beauty queen, and television presenter. Related to Julio César Turbay Ayala, Turbay represented Bogotá in the Miss Colombia beauty pageant and won in 199 ... (born 1970), Colombian-American actress {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Claudia Turbay Quintero Claudia Turbay Quintero (born 27 June 1952) is a Colombian journalist and diplomat. She has served as Ambassador of Colombia to Switzerland, with dual accreditation as Non-Resident Ambassador to Liechtenstein, Ambassador of Colombia to Uruguay with dual accreditation as Permanent Representative of Colombia to the Latin American Integration Association in Montevideo, and had over 27 years of experience working with Proexport, holding various positions including Commercial Director in the Miami offices, and Vice President, eventually being appointed President of the agency in 2002. Career She is a journalist from Fordham University with a Master of Latin American and Caribbean Studies from New York University. Proexport Turbay started working with Proexport, then called ''Proexpo'', in 1974 in the New York City offices as a clerk in the business library; from there she became and adjunct member in New York City and was later appointed Commercial Director of the Miami office. She r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Diana Turbay Diana Consuelo Turbay Quintero (March 9, 1950 – January 25, 1991) was a Colombian journalist kidnapped by the Medellín Cartel and killed by the Colombian Guerrilla during a botched rescue attempt. Her story has been portrayed in a non-fiction book by Gabriel García Márquez and onscreen. Early years Diana Turbay was born on March 9, 1951, in Bogotá to Julio César Turbay Ayala, who would later be the 25th president of the Republic of Colombia (1978–1982) and Nydia Quintero Turbay. Her father was her mother's maternal uncle. The Turbay family were originally from Lebanon and her family still belong to, and frequent, the Club Colombo Libanes, a private social club of prominent Lebanese-Colombians. Kidnapping and death Turbay was kidnapped on August 30, 1990, when she was tricked into going to a supposed interview with a guerrilla leader, the Spanish priest Manuel Pérez Martínez, alias El Cura Pérez (The Priest Pérez). Turbay had been contacted by phone by an unidentifi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Gabriel Turbay Gabriel Turbay (1901–1947) was a Colombian politician of Syrian descent. He was a Congressman, Senator, and Foreign Minister in the 1930s. He served as Colombia's Ambassador to the United States from 1939 to 1945. He was an unsuccessful candidate for president in 1946. Early life Gabriel Turbay was born on January 10, 1901, in Bucaramanga, Colombia. His parents, Juan Turbay and Barbara Abunader, were immigrants to Colombia from Lebanon. Turbay earned a PhD in Medicine and Surgery from the National University of Colombia. Career Turbay began his career as a physician in his hometown of Bucaramanga. Turbay joined the Colombian Liberal Party. He served as a member of the House of Representatives from 1927 to 1934, and the Senate A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a bicameral legislature. The name comes from the ancient Roman Senate (Latin: ''Senatus''), so-called as an assembly of the senior (Latin: ''senex'' meaning "the el ... f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Julio César Turbay Ayala Julio César Turbay Ayala (18 June 1916 – 13 September 2005) was a Colombian lawyer and politician who served as the 25th President of Colombia from 1978 to 1982. He also held the positions of Foreign Minister and Ambassador to the United States. Biographic data Turbay was born in a rich neighborhood of ''“Voto Nacional”'', Bogotá, on June 18, 1916. His father, Antonio Amín Turbay, was a businessman who emigrated from Tannourine, Lebanon. His mother, Rosaura Ayala, was a peasant from the province of Cundinamarca. Turbay’s father, a hard working merchant, had built a fortune, which he completely lost during the civil war of the Thousand Days War.Arismendi Posada, Ignacio; ''Gobernantes Colombianos''; trans. Colombian Presidents; Interprint Editors Ltd., Italgraf, Segunda Edición; Page 249; Bogotá, Colombia; 1983 Turbay Ayala completed his secondary studies in Bogotá, but never attended college, and instead became an autodidact, a fact that his political adversar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Julio César Turbay Quintero Julio César Turbay Quintero (born in 1949) is a Colombian lawyer and politician. A Liberal party politician, he served as the 33rd Comptroller General of Colombia, Senator and Chamber Representative, as well as Deputy to the Cundinamarca Departmental Assembly, and Councilmember to various Municipal Councils in Cundinamarca including the Bogotá City Council. On September 17, 2009, the magazine Cambio revealed how the comptroller spent millions of pesos from the public budget on trips that he advertised as technicals, but which were more of a private nature. Likewise, a notable increase was discovered in the contracting of services, telephone expenses, vehicles and parties in the Comptroller's Office during his period. This case is currently being investigated by the General Auditor of the Republic. On the other hand, his successor in the Comptroller's Office, Sandra Morelli Rico, ordered the reopening of the processes that his predecessor had controversially closed: the Agro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Nydia Quintero Turbay Nydia Quintero Turbay (born 28 August 1932) is the ex-wife of the List of Presidents of Colombia, 25th President of Colombia, Julio César Turbay Ayala, and served as First Lady of Colombia from 1978 to 1982 when they were still married. She is the President of ''Fundación Solidaridad por Colombia'', a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the condition of impoverished Colombian families through educational and nutritional programs for children, the disabled and the poor. Personal life She was born on 28 August 1932 in Neiva, Huila to Jorge Quintero Céspedes and Adhalía Turbay Ayala. She is of Lebanese diaspora, Lebanese and Basque diaspora, Basque descent. She attended ''La Presentación'' in Neiva where she lived until the death of her father when she moved to Bogotá to study at the ''Liceo Nacional Femenino Antonia Santos''. On 18 May 1948, against the wishes of her family, she married her maternal uncle Julio César Turbay Ayala in a clandestine wedding in a Roma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]