Emine Erdoğan
Emine Erdoğan (* 21st February 1955 in Istanbul as Emine Gülbaran ) is the wife of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan since 2014, the first lady of Turkey.
Life
Emine was born in 1955 in the Fatih district of Istanbul as the fifth child of Cemal and Hayriye Gülbaran, who originally come from Siirt and are of Arab origin. At the age of 15 she was supposed to wear the headscarf and, according to her and her brother's statements, he forced her to do so. The Mithatpaşa Akşam Art School is often given as the place of training, but whether the training has been completed or not - or whether it has attended it at all - can no longer be researched, according to some journalists.
Before Erdoğan's wedding, he is said to have appeared to her in a dream; According to her companion Şule Yüksel Şenler , an “old bearded man with a prayer hat” pointed to a “long, handsome young man in a cream suit” (who symbolized the well-known Erdoğan) and told her to marry him. She was a member of the Islamic women's association İdealist Kadınlar Birliği and met Recep Tayyip at a conference. In 1978 she married Erdoğan.
With Erdoğan's election victory in 2002, she rose to be Prime Minister's wife, which sparked tensions, as entering into a hijab was not allowed in state institutions in the interests of Turkish secularity. She shared the same problem with the wife of former Prime Minister Abdullah Gül , Hayrünnisa Gül . In some cases, no invitations were sent to them or they voluntarily avoided the state acts - such as B. Saluting the military. These taboos were broken step by step - she now wears headscarves quite openly and is considered a fashion model for conservative Turkish women. For the foreign heads of state, new rules regarding etiquette have been established, such as skipping a kiss on the cheek, which if ignored, will make them tilt their head. In 2012, Emine Erdoğan officially took part in the celebrations in Parliament for National Sovereignty Day wearing a headscarf . Previously, in October 2010, she took part in the Republic Day celebrations for the first time . The respective appearances also met with international media coverage.
The Erdoğan couple have two sons, Ahmet Burak and Necmeddin Bilal , and two daughters, Esra and Sümeyye . The daughters studied in the USA. Esra has been married to Berat Albayrak , Minister for Energy and Natural Resources in the Davutoğlu III cabinet since 2004 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ayrım yapmıyorum Arap kızıyla evlendim Milliyet, March 10, 2013 [1]
- ↑ Thomas Seibert: She locked herself in her room and cried , Der Tagesspiegel, October 28, 2010 [2]
- ↑ Türbanın ardındaki öykü , Hürriyet, December 21, 2006, [3]
- ^ Spiegel online: Turkish fashion magazine "Âlâ": High paragraph, chaste look, January 27, 2012
- ↑ www.focus.de: Symbolic Revolution: Headscarves for the first time in the Turkish Parliament , April 24, 2012
- ↑ Der Tagesspiegel: Portrait of Emine Erdogan, October 28, 2010
- ↑ Erdoğan's daughters study in the USA . In: Spiegel Online - unispiegel
- ^ Markus Bernath: Ministerial post for Erdogan's son-in-law . Article from November 30, 2015 in the derstandard.at portal , accessed on May 22, 2017
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Erdoğan, Emine |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gülbaran, Emine (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Turkish wife of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 21, 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Istanbul |