Bayraktar is Erdogan's family business
The technical director of Baykar technology, Selcuk Bayraktar, is the son-in-law of Turkish President Recep Erdogan, which explains a lot of what has been happening around the company in recent years.
This was reported on BBC News Ukraine, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“The brothers’ love for aviation was instilled in them by their father Ozdemir Bayraktar, he was an amateur pilot. And in 1984 he created a company for the production of auto parts "Baykar makina" In addition to production, Ozdemir Bayraktar was actively involved in politics, thanks to which he met the current President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Later, the families of Bayraktar and Erdogan officially became related, Selcuk (technical director of Baykar technology, son of Ozdemir Bayraktar Selcuk Bayraktar - ed.) married the daughter of the then President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan Sümeye.
After the wedding of Selçuk and Sümeye, many in Turkey wondered whether the connection with the head of state became the basis for the prosperity of the family business,” the story says.
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