Fatma Betül Sayan Kaya | |
Office: | Minister of Family and Social Policy |
Honorific-Suffix: | MP |
Predecessor: | Sema Ramazanoğlu |
Primeminister: | Binali Yıldırım |
Successor: | Zehra Zümrüt Selçuk |
Leader2: | Ahmet Davutoğlu Binali Yıldırım |
Office2: | Deputy Chairwoman of the Justice and Development Party |
Predecessor2: | Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu |
Party: | Justice and Development Party (AKP) |
Constituency1: | Istanbul (II) (Nov 2015, 2018) |
Birth Date: | 31 January 1981 |
Birth Place: | Fatih, Istanbul, Turkey |
Spouse: | İlyas Kaya |
Children: | 2 |
Alma Mater: | Bilkent University (BSci) Istanbul University (MD) |
Cabinet: | 65th |
Term Start: | 24 May 2016 |
Term End: | 10 July 2018 |
Term Start1: | 1 November 2015 |
Term Start2: | 25 November 2015 |
Fatma Betül Sayan Kaya (pronounced as /tr/; born January 31, 1981) is a Turkish politician who serves as the Minister of Family and Social Policies since 24 May 2016. Sayan Kaya is the vice-chair of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) responsible for foreign affairs.
She is a Member of Parliament for Istanbul second electoral district from the AKP.[1]
Fatma Betül Sayan graduated from Bilkent University department of computer engineering with high distinction.[2] She completed her MD degree in Cerrahpaşa Medical School of Istanbul University. Between 2009 and 2012, she served as an advisor to Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.[3] In 2017 she was involved in a diplomatic row between the Netherlands and Turkey, during which she was denied from campaigning in the Netherlands for the 2017 Turkish constitutional referendum.[4]
Fatma Betül Sayan Kaya is married and has two children.