Necmettin Bilal Erdoğan (born 23 April 1981) is a Turkish businessman, the second child of

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (born 26 February 1954) is a Turkish politician serving as the List of presidents of Turkey, 12th and current president of Turkey since 2014. He previously served as prime minister of Turkey from 2003 to 2014 and as Lis ...

, the

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Early life

Necmettin Bilal was born on 23 April 1981, the second child of

and

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. He has three siblings: Ahmet Burak,

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and

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. After finishing secondary school at Kartal Anadolu İmam Hatip Lisesi in 1999, Erdoğan moved to the United States, and graduated from

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with a bachelor's degree in political science and economics. He then earned a master's degree from the

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in 2004.

Career

After graduation, he served at the World Bank as an intern for a while. He returned to Turkey in 2006 and started his business life. Erdoğan is one of the three equal shareholders of BMZ Group Denizcilik ve İnşaat Sanayi Anonym Şirketi, a marine transportation corporation. He is also on the governing board of the Turkish Youth Foundation () which is exempt of paying taxes by decree of the Turkish president, Bilals father.

Personal life

Erdoğan married Reyyan Uzuner in 2003. The couple have two sons, Ömer Tayyip and Ali Tahir, and a daughter, Fatıma Serra. In October 2015, ''

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'' reported that Erdoğan and his family had moved to

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, after his father's

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lost its parliamentary majority in June. It is stated that he will finish his PhD at

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there, but that all he has to do is complete his thesis, which does not require his permanent presence in Bologna, but does enable him to obtain a two-year residence permit. In February 2016 the prosecuting attorney of Bologna started a lawsuit for

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against him.

Corruption scandal

Erdoğan came under accusations of corruption during the

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that extended to other top members of TÜRGEV, for which he gave testimony.

References

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