Bilal Erdoğan

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Necmettin Bilal Erdoğan (born April 23, 1981 in Istanbul ) is a Turkish entrepreneur . He is the third child of Emine and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan , the incumbent President of the Republic of Turkey .

Life

Bilal Erdoğan attended the İmam-Hatip-Gymnasium in Kartal . After completing his school education, Erdoğan obtained a master’s degree in public administration from Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University in Cambridge (Massachusetts) in 2003 . From November 2004 he worked for some time as an intern at the World Bank and later as a research fellow at the Brookings Institution .

In 2006 Erdoğan became a partner in Atagold, together with his brother and his wife . In September 2008 Erdoğan acquired shares in the cosmetics company Maye Dış Ticaret Limited . Erdoğan did the shortened military service of 21 days in July 2009. In the following month Erdoğan became one of the two largest partners in the company Doruk Izgara Gıda Ticaret Limited Şirketi in the field of baked goods, catering and tourism. In 2013 Erdoğan founded the BMZ Group Denizcilik ve İnşaat Sanayi A.Ş. together with his brother-in-law and an uncle. , a cargo shipping company . At the end of 2015, the BMZ Group had five tankers. In 2013 Erdoğan was one of the founders of the İnsan ve İrfan Vakfı Foundation , which is active in religious education. Moreover, Erdogan sits with his sister Ezra and politicians of the ACP Board of Directors of Foundation Türkiye Gençlik ve Eğitime Hizmet Vakfı , the student residences builds and operates.

family

Erdoğan has three siblings, the brother Ahmet Burak (* 1979) and the sisters Sümeyye (* 1985) and Esra. In 2003 he married the then 17-year-old Reyvan Uzuner (* 1986), who gave birth to sons Ömer Tayyip (* 2007) and Ali Tahir (* 2013). The politicians Silvio Berlusconi and Kostas Karamanlis , who are considered friends of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan , acted as two of four best witnesses at the magnificent wedding ceremony in Istanbul. Erdoğan's sister Esra's husband is Berat Albayrak , whom Erdoğan's father confirmed as Minister for Energy and Natural Resources in the Davutoğlu III cabinet on November 24, 2015 .

Suspicions

2013 Erdogan was supported by the Istanbul prosecutor's office in connection with a corruption scandal suspected bribes his father wash . One suspicion of corruption relates to the fact that Erdoğan's Foundation was given a plot of 20,000 m² as a gift from businessman Ali Ağaoğlu, who was also suspected of bribery. Shortly afterwards, recordings of an alleged telephone conversation between Erdogan and his father appeared, in which the aim was to bring large amounts of cash to safety. The Istanbul public prosecutor's office arrested several suspects associated with the government in December 2013 on suspicion of corruption. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan describes the corruption allegations as a plot by supporters of the Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen , who wants to overthrow his government. The government transferred numerous police officers and prosecutors. The initiated corruption investigations were then discontinued without charge.

In the course of a parliamentary question, the Turkish opposition party CHP learned from Bülent Arınç , then Vice Prime Minister of the Turkish government, that Erdoğan's foundation Türkiye Gençlik ve Eğitime Hizmet Vakfı had received a donation of 99,999,990 US dollars from abroad between 2008 and 2012. The CHP saw this as an indication of corruption and suspected that the donation came from the Middle East .

In November 2015, the Syrian Minister of Information, Omran Ahed Al Zoubi, alleged that Erdoğan's transport company was trading in oil, other raw materials and cultural goods from the terrorist organization Islamic State . Gürsel Tekin , Secretary General of the CHP, took the position that Bilal Erdoğan was cooperating with terrorism and that his father's office would protect him from prosecution. After allegations that he and his family would benefit from oil smuggled by the Islamic State were also brought forward by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Kuschugetowitsch Shoigu in early December 2015 , Bilal Erdoğan denied them.

In February 2016, money laundering investigations against Erdoğan began in Italy . The starting point of the investigation was a tip from the Turkish businessman Hakan Uzan . The case against Bilal Erdoğan in Italy was dropped for lack of evidence.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Boris Kálnoky: Erdogan family . Article from December 17, 2004 in the welt.de portal , accessed on December 6, 2015
  2. ^ Markus Bernath: Ministerial post for Erdogan's son-in-law . Article from November 30, 2015 in the derstandard.at portal , accessed on February 14, 2016
  3. Boris Kálnoky, Cigdem Toprak: The bizarre business of Bilal Erdogan . Article from February 27, 2014 in the welt.de portal , accessed on December 6, 2015
  4. ^ Money laundering investigations against Erdogan's son . Article from February 17, 2016 in the portal handelsblatt.com , accessed on February 20, 2016
  5. Turkey: Erdogan's son's foundation received a huge million-euro donation . Article from April 10, 2014 in the portal spiegel.de , accessed on December 8, 2015
  6. Ozan Demircan: Is Erdogan's son the oil minister of IS? Article dated December 5, 2015 in the handelsblatt.com portal , accessed on December 6, 2015
  7. ^ Tyler Durden: ISIS Oil Trade Full Frontal: "Raqqa's Rockefellers", Bilal Erdogan, KRG Crude, And The Israel Connection . Article dated December 1, 2015 in the portal jewishbusinessnews.com , accessed on December 8, 2015
  8. Matin Suter, Ann Gueter: Is Erdogan's son the "oil minister" of IS? Article from December 3, 2015 in the 20min.ch portal , accessed on December 8, 2015
  9. ^ F. William Engdahl: Erdogan's Dirty Dangerous ISIS Games . Article from August 24, 2015 in the portal journal-neo.org , accessed on December 8, 2015
  10. Turkish leader's son denies Russian allegations of Islamic State trade . Article dated December 8, 2015 in the reuters.com portal , accessed on December 8, 2015
  11. Michael Day: Bilal Erdogan: Italy names Turkish president's son in money laundering investigation allegedly connected to political corruption . Article dated February 17, 2016 on independent.co.uk , accessed on February 20, 2016