Fatma Betül Sayan Kaya Explained

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.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Turkish family affairs minister detained by Dutch authorities: media . . https://web.archive.org/web/20230321090743/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-referendum-netherlands-protest-idUSKBN16I0SX . 2023-03-21 . live .
  2. Web site: Bilgisayar Mühendisliği . Bilkent University . 24 May 2016 . Turkish.
  3. Web site: 26. Dönem Milletvekili Adaylarımız. Turkish . Justice and Development Party . 24 May 2016.
  4. Web site: Turkse minister van Familiezaken tegengehouden in Rotterdam. 2021-10-23. nos.nl. 11 March 2017 . nl.