Editing Sibel Edmonds (section)

== Early life, family and education ==
The daughter of an [[Iranian Azerbaijanis|Iranian Azerbaijani]] father and [[Turkish people|Turkish]] mother,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kkc.com/our-firm/meet-the-whistleblowers/sibel-edmonds/|title=Sibel Edmonds|work=KKC}}</ref> Edmonds lived in Iran and then Turkey before coming to the United States as a student<ref name="vanity_fair">{{Cite news|url=http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9774.htm|title=An Inconvenient Patriot|last=Rose|first=David|magazine=Vanity Fair|date=August 15, 2005|access-date=December 9, 2016|archive-date=May 3, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130503080527/http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9774.htm|url-status=dead}} "But as a naturalized Turkish-American, she saw the job as her patriotic duty."</ref> in 1988. Fluent in [[Azerbaijani language|Azerbaijani]], [[Turkish language|Turkish]], [[Persian language|Persian]] and [[English language|English]],<ref name="vanity_fair" /><ref name="nswbc_staff">{{cite web|url=http://www.nswbc.org/nswbc_staff.htm|title=National Security Whistleblowers Coalition – About Us|access-date=October 15, 2008}}</ref><ref name="Kill The Messenger (2006)">{{citation |title=Kill The Messenger (2006) documentary |publisher=CANAL+ / Zadig Productions|date=2006 |quote=from 4m47s to 4m55s}}</ref> Edmonds earned her bachelor's degree in [[criminal justice]] and [[psychology]] from [[George Washington University]]<ref name="vanity_fair" /> and her master's in [[public policy]] and international [[commerce]] from [[George Mason University]].<ref name="nswbc_staff" />

In 1992, at age 22, she married Matthew Edmonds, a retail-technology consultant from Virginia.<ref name="vanity_fair" />