Sumeyye erdogan biography examples
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Erdoğan’s daughter Sümeyye ties the knot with Selçuk Bayraktar in Istanbul
Nearly 6,000 guests attended the ceremony, while top officials Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, ledare of personal Hulusi Akar and former president Abdullah Gül have attended the as witnesses.
Foreign leaders Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, Bosnian President Bakir Izetbegović, former Prime Minister of Lebanon Saad Hariri and Prime Minister of Albania Edi Rama were also marriage witnesses at the ceremony.
The youngest of President Erdoğan and First Lady Emine Erdoğan's four children, Sümeyye Erdoğan previously served as the adviser to the vice-president of the Justice and Development (AK) Party during her father Recep
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The Turkish entrepreneur always wanted to aim high. His name: Selcuk Bayraktar. Not only successful in business, but also the son-in-law of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Six years ago, his wedding to Sümeyye Erdogan, one of the daughters of the new Turkish Sultan, celebrated with 6,000 guests, made him a VIP in Istanbul’s better society.
He derives his business and profit primarily from the arms industry. The famous Bayraktar drones, successful in the Ukrainian defense against Russian bombings of cities and civilians, bear his name. The Turkish drone magnate and scion of an Istanbul entrepreneurial family posts photos and films of him in a fighter jet or in front of one of his weapons online. Born in 1979, Selcuk was trained as an engineer in Türkiye and the USA. As a doctoral student at Penn University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), he worked on autonomous drones and helicopters. In 2007, he returned to the company that his father founded in 1
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Turkish intelligence agency MIT, then headed by Hakan Fidan, devised a fake assassination plot against the Turkish president’s daughter Sümeyye Erdogan in February 2014 to help restore the popularity of then-prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan when he was dealt a serious blow from a massive corruption exposé only two months earlier.
It was clear to keen observers and analysts of Turkish politics from day one that the plot was fabricated for the benefit of Erdogan, who was heading to critical local elections in March that would test his government’s public support amid the graft scandal. But it took almost a decade to sort the plot out through Turkey’s judicial system and finally obtain several rulings that the plot was in fact a fake.
On Friday, February 20, 2014, three dailies — Akşam, Star and Güneş — owned at the time by Ethem Sancak, a businessman with close ties to Erdogan, simultaneously ran front-page stories alleging that a