Selin Sayek Böke

Selin Sayek Böke (born August 24, 1972 in Buffalo , New York ) is a Turkish-American economist , professor and politician . Since 2014 she has been the deputy chairwoman and spokeswoman for the Republican People's Party (CHP), Turkey's largest opposition party .

Life

She was born into an Arab , Greek Orthodox family as the daughter of İskender Sayek from Arsuz in Hatay and Füsun Sayek from Niğde . Part of her family is Christian , another part Muslim .

Sayek Böke attended the primary school in Çankaya and until 1989 the TED college in Ankara . She graduated from the Middle East Technical University's Faculty of Economics in 1993 and received her PhD in Economics from Duke University in Durham in 1999 . She taught there and became a consultant to the World Bank , where she worked on projects in South Africa as well as Northern and Central Europe. Until 2001 she worked as an assistant professor at Bentley University , then as an economist for the International Monetary Fund and as a lecturer at Georgetown University . She has been teaching at Bilkent University since 2003 , where she became a lecturer in 2010 and president of the business faculty from 2011 to 2014. She is a founding member of the Füsun Sayek Development Foundation for Health and Education and has been a member of the Science and Research Council of Turkey (TÜBITAK) since 2011 .

After being elected to the party meeting of the Republican People's Party (CHP) in 2014, it was in the general election in June 2015 in the Turkish Grand National Assembly elected. She was re-elected in the new elections in November .

Selin Sayek has been married to Mert Böke since 2002 and has two children. For her scientific work, she received the Excellence Award in 2007 for the World Economy Affairs of the Institute for World Economics in Kiel .

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Commons : Selin Sayek Böke - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Personal website
Profile on the side of the Grand National Assembly. Retrieved March 5, 2015 .

Individual evidence

↑ How big will the protest vote be? The Economist , accessed March 6, 2016 .
↑ Böke: Ailemin bir tarafı Hıristiyan, diğer tarafı Müslüman. Retrieved March 5, 2016 .

personal data
SURNAME	Sayek Böke, Selin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Sayek, Selin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Turkish economist
DATE OF BIRTH	August 24, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ankara , Turkey

[1] How big will the protest vote be? The Economist , accessed March 6, 2016 .

[2] Böke: Ailemin bir tarafı Hıristiyan, diğer tarafı Müslüman. Retrieved March 5, 2016 .