Erden Timur (born 16 November 1981) is a Turkish

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and

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. He is the founder of Timur Real Estate Inc. and a former director of

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Early life and education

Erden Timur was born on 16 November 1981 in

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, into an

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family. His father, Musa Timur, was a

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and his mother, Nazife Timur, was a

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. He completed secondary school at Toros Private Colleges and high school at . He completed his undergraduate education at

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's Faculty of Law and finally studied economics at the

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Personal life

He had a daughter named Ala Bade and a son named Yusuf Kenan from his wife Emine Timur ().

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Timur, Erden 1982 births Alumni of the London School of Economics Living people Tarsus American College alumni Turkish businesspeople Turkish lawyers