Fatma Şahin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Fatma Şahin

Turkish politician

Date of Birth: 20-Jun-1966

Place of Birth: Gaziantep, Turkey

Profession: engineer, politician

Nationality: Turkey

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

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Fatma Sahin (born 20 June 1966 in Gaziantep) is a Turkish chemical engineer and politician.
On 6 July 2011 she was appointed as the Minister of Family and Social Policies in the third cabinet of Erdogan. She was born on 20 June 1966 in Gaziantep to Mustafa and Perihan Sahin.
She was educated in chemical engineering at the Istanbul Technical University.
Fatma Sahin worked as an engineer and manager in the textile industry.She entered politics together with her husband Izzet Sahin and co-founded the Justice and Development Party.
Taking active part in the provincial organization, she was elected three times deputy from her hometown.
She is the first female member of the Turkish parliament elected from Gaziantep and from the Southeastern Anatolia Region.
Fatma Sahin served as the chairperson of women's branch of her party.Following the 2011 general elections, she became the only female minister in the third cabinet of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
She was replaced by Aysenur Islam on 25 December 2013 in a cabinet reshuffle.As a result of the 2014 local elections, Sahin was elected mayor of Gaziantep.She has two children, a son and a daughter.