Sadık Albayrak (born 15 February 1942
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. He again ran for parliament from Welfare Party
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in 1991
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and 1995
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* United Nations Year for Tolerance
* World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War
This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government ...
. His 1980 book ''Son devir Osmanlı uleması'' won an award from the Writers Union of Turkey
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.
Albayrak has been friends with Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
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since around 1980.[Metin YÜKSEL, Hurriyet, 21 March 2004]
Başbakan'ın yazar ve gazeteci dünürü
/ref> In 2004, his son Berat
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married Erdoğan's daughter Esra. Albayrak's son Serhat is CEO of Calik Holding's Turkuvaz Media Group
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, while Berat is CEO of the holding.
Books
* ''Son devir Osmanlı uleması'' (1980), Medrese Yayınevi
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Albayrak, Sadik
1942 births
Living people
People from Dernekpazarı
National Salvation Party politicians
Welfare Party politicians
20th-century Turkish journalists