Sema Ramazanoğlu
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Sema Ramazanoğlu MP |
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| Minister of Family and Social Policy | |
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In office 24 November 2015 – 24 May 2016 |
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| Prime Minister | Ahmet Davutoğlu |
| Preceded by | Ayşen Gürcan |
| Succeeded by | Fatma Betül Sayan Kaya |
| Member of the Grand National Assembly | |
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Assumed office 1 November 2015 |
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| Constituency | Denizli (Nov 2015) |
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| Born | August 25, 1959 Denizli, Turkey |
| Citizenship | Turkish |
| Political party | Justice and Development Party |
| Education | Medicine |
| Alma mater | Ankara University |
| Cabinet | 64th |
| Religion | Islam |
Sema Ramazanoğlu (born August 25, 1959) is a Turkish politician from the Justice and Development Party (AKP) who served as the Minister of Family and Social Policy in the third cabinet of Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu from 24 November 2015 to 24 May 2016. She is the second cabinet minister of Turkey to wear a headscarf, after her predecessor as Family and Social Policy Minister Ayşen Gürcan. She serves as a Member of Parliament for the electoral district of Denizli since being elected in the snap general election on 1 November 2015.
Before becoming an MP and a cabinet minister, Ramazanoğlu served as an advisor to former Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan from 2003 to 2009 in his capacity as AKP leader, having also been one of the founders of the AKP. She has served on the party's Central Executive Decision Board (MKYK). Her sister, Selma Aliye Kavaf, was also an AKP Member of Parliament from 2007 to 2011 and served as a Minister of State responsible for women and social policy between 2009 and 2011.
Ramazanoğlu faced large-scale criticism and calls for her resignation after it was revealed that 45 children staying at illegal dormitories owned by the Ensar Foundation, a pro-government religious education provider, had been raped by one of Ensar's teachers in Karaman. Ramazanoğlu was ridiculed for her defence of the Foundation, claiming that a 'one-time occurrence of such a situation should not be used to discredit Ensar's contributions to society.'
Ramazanoğlu was born in 1959 in Denizli. She is married to Yıldırım Mehmet Ramazanoğlu, who is also a politician. She graduated from Ankara University as a surgeon and later travelled to Bern, Switzerland to specialise in the field of radiology. While working in universities and hospitals in Switzerland, she was active in both Turkish and Islamic societies living in Europe.
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