Esra Albayrak (

née The birth name is the name of the person given upon their birth. The term may be applied to the surname, the given name or to the entire name. Where births are required to be officially registered, the entire name entered onto a births registe ...

Erdoğan; born 14 October 1983) is a Turkish sociologist. She is the daughter of the 12th President of Turkey,

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (born 26 February 1954) is a Turkish politician who is the 12th and current president of Turkey since 2014. He previously served as the 25th prime minister of Turkey, prime minister from 2003 to 2014 as part of the Jus ...

, and the wife of the former Ministry of Finance and Treasury of Turkey,

Berat Albayrak Berat Albayrak ( born 21 February 1978) is a Turkish businessman and politician. He served as the Minister of Energy and Natural Resources from 2015 to 2018 and as the minister of treasury and finance from 2018 to 2020. In the general elections ...

Family

Her father is

and her mother is

Emine Erdoğan Emine Erdoğan (; born 16 February 1955) is the current first lady of Turkey as the wife of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Early and personal life Early life Emine Erdoğan was born as Cemal and Hayriye Gülbaran’s fifth child and only ...

. She has three siblings: Ahmet Burak, Necmettin Bilal and Sümeyye. On 11 July 2004, she was married to Sadık Albayrak's son

at the Lütfi Kırdar Convention and Exhibition Center. Guests at the ceremony included Romanian Prime Minister

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, Greek Prime Minister

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, Jordanian King

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, Pakistani President

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, Minister of Foreign Affairs

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and Speaker of the Grand National Assembly

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. They have four children; Ahmet Akif (b. 2006), Emine Mahinur (b. 2009), Sadık (b. 2015) and Hamza Salih (b. 2020).

Education

She completed her high school education in Kadıköy İmam Hatip High School and her undergraduate education in 2003 in the field of sociology and history at

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in the College of Arts and Sciences. She received her master's degree from the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after t ...

. In 2016, she completed her PhD in sociology at the same university. One of her friends whom she studied with described her as a person with "strong personality; strict beliefs about life, faith, politics and family".

Social activities

She is a board member of TURKEN Foundation in New York, United States,

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(Turkey Youth and Education Services Foundation), and

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, established under the leadership of her father Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. She participated in the 'We are Volunteers, We Teach' campaign initiated by

Ümraniye Ümraniye () is a municipality and Districts of Turkey, district of Istanbul Province, Istanbul Province, Turkey. Its area is 46 km2, and its population is 723,760 (2023). It was separated from Üsküdar in 1987. It is bordered by Çekmeköy t ...

Municipality for disabled people and taught the alphabet to disabled girls.

References

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