Bilal Erdoğan
| Bilal Erdoğan | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Necmettin Bilal Erdoğan 23 April 1981 Istanbul, Turkey |
| Nationality | Turkish |
| Education | Kartal Anadolu İmam Hatip Lisesi |
| Alma mater |
Indiana University Bloomington John F. Kennedy School of Government |
| Spouse(s) | Reyyan Uzuner (m. 2003) |
| Children | Ömer Tayyip (b. 2007) Ali Tahir (b. 2013) |
| Parent(s) |
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Emine Erdoğan |
| Relatives |
Burak (brother) Sümeyye (sister) Esra (sister) Berat Albayrak (brother-in-law) |
Necmettin Bilal Erdoğan (born 23 April 1981) is a Turkish businessman, the third child of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the President of Turkey.
Necmettin Bilal was born on 23 April 1981, the third child of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Emine Erdoğan. He has three siblings: Ahmet Burak, Sümeyye and Esra. After finishing secondary school at Kartal Anadolu İmam Hatip Lisesi in 1999, Erdoğan moved to the US for undergraduate education. He graduated from Indiana University Bloomington with a bachelor's degree in political science and economics. He also earned a master's degree from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 2004.
After graduation, he served at the World Bank as an intern for a while. He returned to Turkey in 2006 and started his business life. Erdoğan is one of the three equal shareholders of BMZ Group Denizcilik ve İnşaat Sanayi Anonym Şirketi, a marine transportation corporation. He is also on the governing board of Türkiye Gençlik ve Eğitime Hizmet Vakfı (TÜRGEV), an education and youth foundation.
Erdoğan married Reyvan Uzuner in 2003. The couple have two sons Ömer Tayyip and Ali Tahir.
In October 2015, Today's Zaman reported that Erdoğan and his family had moved to Bologna, Italy, after his father's AK Party lost its parliamentary majority in June. It is stated that he will finish his PhD at The Johns Hopkins University SAIS Bologna Center there, but that all he has to do is complete his thesis, which does not require his permanent presence in Bologna, but does enable him to obtain a two-year residence permit.
In February 2016 the prosecuting attorney of Bologna started a lawsuit for money laundering against him.
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