Julio César Turbay Quintero

Julio César Turbay Quintero (born in 1949) is a Colombian lawyer and politician. A Liberal party politician, he served as the 33rd Comptroller General of Colombia, Senator and Chamber Representative, as well as Deputy to the Cundinamarca Departmental Assembly, and Councilmember to various Municipal Councils in Cundinamarca including the Bogotá City Council.

Julio César is the son of former President of Colombia Julio César Turbay Ayala and his first wife and former First Lady of Colombia Nydia Quintero Turbay. He is of Lebanese and Basque descent through both his parents. The eldest out of four children, his other siblings are Diana Consuelo, a journalist who was killed during a rescue operation following her kidnapping, Claudia, current Ambassador of Colombia to Switzerland, and María Victoria, a lawyer and Vice President of Fundación Solidaridad por Colombia a nonprofit organization in Bogotá. He married Marta Josefina Noguera Vidales with whom he had three children, Marta Ximena, Julio César, and Alejandro Ángel, but later divorced. He later remarried Amparo Rodríguez Canal, his stepsister, with whom he has one son, Matías.