Sibel Siber
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Sibel Siber | |
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.jpg) Siber in 2014 | |
| Speaker of the Assembly of the Republic | |
| In office 4 September 2013 – 22 January 2018 | |
| Preceded by | Hasan Bozer |
| Succeeded by | Teberrüken Uluçay |
| 10th Prime Minister of Northern Cyprus | |
| In office 13 June 2013 – 2 September 2013 | |
| President | Derviş Eroğlu |
| Preceded by | İrsen Küçük |
| Succeeded by | Özkan Yorgancıoğlu |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 13 December 1960 |
| Party | Republican Turkish Party |
| Spouse |
Rıfat Siber (m. 1984) |
| Children | 1 |
| Alma mater | Istanbul University |
Sibel Siber (born 13 December 1960) is a Turkish Cypriot politician. She served as the Prime Minister of Northern Cyprus between 13 June 2013, following the fall of the government of İrsen Küçük in a vote of no confidence, and 2 September 2013. She was the first woman to occupy this post.[1] As of November 2015[update], Siber was the Speaker of Parliament, the Assembly of the Republic of Northern Cyprus.[2] She was the second woman to occupy this post, after Fatma Ekenoğlu.
Sibel Siber (née Adademir) was born in Nicosia on 13 December 1960.[3] Her father, Altay Adademir, was a primary school teacher from the village of Melouseia in the Larnaca District; her mother, Aysel Adademir, was a housewife from the village of Klavdia. She has one sibling. She continually moved to different villages and cities in her childhood as her father was appointed to different schools.[4] She lived respectively in Larnaca, Arsos and Klavdia,[4] and moved to Tremetousia when she was seven. She would later recount her primary fear during childhood as travel, as many Turkish Cypriots went missing while on the roads, but highlight the peaceful interaction between the two communities in the mixed village of Tremetousia.[5] She graduated from the Tremetousia Turkish Primary School and enrolled to the Nicosia Turkish Girls' High School.[4]
Siber was admitted to the Cerrahpaşa Faculty of Medicine of Istanbul University when she was 16, at a time when political incidents involving students were at their height.[4] She completed the medical school and graduated as a physician on 5 April 1983.[6][7] She completed her specialization in internal medicine in the Şişli Etfal Hospital in 1987, returned to Cyprus and started working at her private clinic. In 1989, she obtained a scholarship and was trained in diabetes and endocrinology at the University of Virginia.[6]
Her first published article, a critic of the healthcare system in Northern Cyprus, was published in 1983 in the newspaper with the highest circulation at the time.[4]
