Esra Albayrak | |
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| Born | Esra Erdoğan (1983-10-14)14 October 1983 (age 42) Istanbul, Turkey |
| Education | Indiana University Bloomington (BA) University of California, Berkeley (MA, PhD) |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 4 |
| Parent(s) | Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Emine Erdoğan |
| Relatives | Ahmet Burak Erdoğan (brother) Necmettin Bilal Erdoğan (brother) Sümeyye Erdoğan (sister) |
Esra Albayrak (néeErdoğan; born 14 October 1983) is a Turkish sociologist. She is the daughter of the 12th President of Turkey,Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and the wife of the former Minister of Finance and Treasury of Turkey,Berat Albayrak.
Her father isRecep Tayyip Erdoğan and her mother isEmine Erdoğan. She has three siblings:Ahmet Burak,Necmettin Bilal andSümeyye. On 11 July 2004, she was married toSadık Albayrak's sonBerat Albayrak at theLütfi Kırdar Convention and Exhibition Center. Guests at the ceremony included Romanian Prime MinisterAdrian Năstase, Greek Prime MinisterKostas Karamanlis, Jordanian KingAbdullah II, Pakistani PresidentPervez Musharraf, Minister of Foreign AffairsAbdullah Gül and Speaker of the Grand National AssemblyBülent Arınç.[1] They have four children; Ahmet Akif (b. 2006), Emine Mahinur (b. 2009), Sadık (b. 2015) and Hamza Salih (b. 2020).[2][3]
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 atIndiana University Bloomington in the College of Arts and Sciences. She received her master's degree from theUniversity of California, Berkeley.[4] 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".[5]
She is a board member of TURKEN Foundation in New York, United States,[6]TÜRGEV (Turkey Youth and Education Services Foundation),[7] andGreen Crescent, established under the leadership of her father Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. She participated in the 'We are Volunteers, We Teach' campaign initiated byÜmraniye Municipality for disabled people and taught the alphabet to disabled girls.[8]
