Recep tayyip erdogan wikipedia

Early life of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the 25th prime minister and 12th&#;president of Turkey, was born on 26 February , in Istanbul, Turkey.

Childhood years and youth

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was born in Kasımpaşa, a poor neighborhood of Istanbul. His family was originally from Rize,^[1] a conservative town on the eastern coast of the Black Sea, and returned there when Erdoğan was still an infant, coming back to Istanbul again when he was ^[2] He spent those years attending Istanbul İmam Hatip school, and selling watermelons, lemonade, and simit (sesame rings) on the city's streets to make extra bills.^[2][3]

While studying business administration at what is today Marmara University's Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences and playing semi-professional football,^[4] Erdoğan also engaged in politics by joining the National Turkish Student Union, an anti-commu