Engagement of Erdoğan's daughter canceled after to-be-groom's father has heart problem

The engagement ceremony of Sümeyye Erdoğan, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s daughter, and Selçuk Bayraktar, an engineer defense industrialist making unmanned vehicles, has been canceled after Bayraktar’s father had a heart problem only hours before the event at Istanbul”s Huber Palace on March 12.

Özdemir Bayraktar, the owner of Baykar Makine, had an art problem and hospitalised, one of his sons, Ahmet Bayraktar, told the press. 

President Erdoğan also went to the hospital in Istanbul’s Halkali district. 

Media reports said earlier this week that Sümeyye Erdoğan and Selçuk Bayraktar had decided to marry.