Little is known about who will be the First Lady of Turkey. She is often seen on state visits or other activities of her husband, but is always in the background.
But who is Emine Erdogan? Like many politicians' wives, she is also engaged in the field of charity.
After the tragic accident in the Somas mine, in May 2014, she visited the families of the victims. In 2009 she invited women heads of government to a summit of First Ladies in Istanbul to draw attention to the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip. She was born in Istanbul in 1955 as the fifth child of Cemal and Hayriye Guelbaran.
It seems that she has not learned any trade. It is known that he attended an art school, but it is not known what exactly he graduated from.
At the age of 22, the young Eminem met her future husband at a political event.
Tayyip Erdogan was at the time head of the youth organization of the National Salvation Party, which was later banned.
The Muslim activist for women's rights, Sule Yueksel Senler, a friend of Emine Erdogan, says that Erdogan had previously seen her friend in a dream.
Fascinated by Emine's beauty, Recep Tayyip Erdogan tried for months with the mother to get her marriage consent.
Senler says that Erdoğan's mother was concerned that the woman he selected was not fully covered, but only wore a headscarf.
They married in 1978. The couple has two sons, Ahmet Burak and Necmeddin Bilal, and two daughters, Esra and Suemeyee. The girls study in the USA.
She has been wearing the headscarf since she was young, but not willingly at first. Because her brothers had forced her to wear a headscarf, she even thought of suicide. This is what Emine Erdogan told a Turkish journalist. She was 15 at the time.
But Emine Erdogan is not even without scandals. In 2005 there was considerable attention in the Turkish press after accepting an expensive gift.
A Turkish businessman presented her with a necklace worth 30 dollars during the opening of a shopping center in Moscow.
Because this fact dominated Erdogan's visit to Russia, the couple returned the expensive chain. /BILD/gazetatema.net/
