| Nydia Quintero Turbay | |
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| First Lady of Colombia | |
| In office 7 August 1978 – 7 August 1982 |
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| Preceded by | Cecilia Caballero Blanco |
| Succeeded by | Rosa Helena Álvarez Yepes |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 28 August 1932 Neiva, Huila, Colombia |
| Nationality | Colombian |
| Spouse(s) | Julio César Turbay Ayala (1948-1983) Gustavo Balcázar Monzón (1984-present) |
| Children | Julio César Turbay Quintero Diana Consuelo Turbay Quintero Claudia Turbay Quintero María Victoria Turbay Quintero |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
Nydia Quintero Turbay (born 28 August 1932)[1] is a Colombian community organizer and philanthropist, President of Fundación Solidaridad por Colombia, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the condition of impoverished Colombian families through educational and nutritional programs for children, the disabled and the poor.[2] A former First Lady of Colombia between 1978 and 1982, she was married to former President of Colombia Julio César Turbay Quintero.
She was born on 28 August 1932 in Neiva, Huila to Jorge Quintero Céspedes and Adhalía Turbay Ayala. Lebanese and Basque descent. She attended La Presentación in Neiva where she lived until the death of her father when she moved to Bogotá to study at the Liceo Nacional Femenino Antonia Santos.[1] On 18 May 1948, against the wishes of her family, she married her maternal uncle Julio César Turbay Ayala in a clandestine wedding in a Roman Catholic ceremony at Santa Teresita Church in Bogotá.[1] From their marriage they had four children, Julio César, Diana Consuelo, Claudia, and María Victoria.[3] She divorced her husband in 1983[4] after his term as President of Colombia and hers as First Lady had ended, and remarried the following year in 1984 to Gustavo Balcázar Monzón,[1] her marriage to former President Turbay Ayala was finally annulled by the Catholic Church in 1986.