Emine Erdoğan

Who is Emine Erdoğan?

Emine Erdoğan is the wife of twenty-fifth Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

Emine Erdoğan was born in Siirt, and grew up in Üsküdar, Istanbul. She is of Arab descent and the youngest child of a family of five children. Erdoğan attended Mithat Paşa Akşam Art School, but left before graduation.

Emine Erdoğan joined the "Idealist Women's Association". During these activities she met Recep Tayyip Erdoğan at a conference. Recep and Emine married on July 4, 1978. The couple has four children: Ahmet Burak Erdoğan, Necmettin Bilal, Sümeyye and Esra.