Esra Albayrak (nee: Erdogan) (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 Ministry of Finance and Treasury of Turkey, Berat Albayrak.

Family

Her father is Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and her mother is Emine Erdoğan. She has three siblings: Ahmet Burak, Necmettin Bilal and Sümeyye. On 11 July 2004, she was married to Sadık Albayrak's son Berat Albayrak at the Lütfi Kırdar Convention and Exhibition Center. Guests at the ceremony included Romanian Prime Minister Adrian Năstase, Greek Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis, Jordanian King Abdullah II, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, Minister of Foreign Affairs Abdullah Gül and Speaker of the Grand National Assembly Bülent Arınç. ^[1] They have four children; Ahmet Akif (b. 2006), Emine Mahinur (b. 2009), Sadık (b. 2015) and Hamza Salih (b. 2020). ^{[2] [3]}

Education

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 at Indiana University Bloomington in the College of Arts and Sciences. She received her master's degree from the University 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]

Social activities

She is a board member of TURKEN Foundation in New York, United States, ^[6] TÜRGEV (Turkey Youth and Education Services Foundation), ^[7] and Green Crescent, established under the leadership of her father Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. She participated in the 'We are Volunteers, We Teach' campaign initiated by Ümraniye Municipality for disabled people and taught the alphabet to disabled girls. ^[8]

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