- published: 10 Jun 2013
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Emine Erdoğan (born Emine Gülbaran on February 21, 1955) 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 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, Necmettin Bilal, Sümeyye and Esra.
On December 7, 2010, Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani conferred Hilal-e-Pakistan Award on Emine Erdoğan, in recognition of her personal efforts for the flood stricken people of Pakistan. In October 2010, Erdoğan visited Pakistan and the flood hit areas to personally witness the devastation caused by the floods and contributed significantly in the fund-raising campaign to help the country’s flood victims.