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Diyarbakır (electoral District)
Diyarbakır is an electoral district of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. It elects ten members of parliament (deputies) to represent the province of the same name for a four-year term by the D'Hondt method, a party-list proportional representation Party-list proportional representation (list-PR) is a subset of proportional representation electoral systems in which multiple candidates are elected (e.g., elections to parliament) through their position on an electoral list. They can also be us ... system. Members Population reviews of each electoral district are conducted before each general election, which can lead to certain districts being granted a smaller or greater number of parliamentary seats. General elections 2011 June 2015 November 2015 2018 Presidential elections 2018 2014 References {{DEFAULTSORT:Isparta (electoral district) Electoral districts of Turkey Politics of Diyarbakır Province ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District
An electoral district, also known as an election district, legislative district, voting district, constituency, riding, ward, division, or (election) precinct is a subdivision of a larger state (a country, administrative region, or other polity) created to provide its population with representation in the larger state's legislative body. That body, or the state's constitution or a body established for that purpose, determines each district's boundaries and whether each will be represented by a single member or multiple members. Generally, only voters (''constituents'') who reside within the district are permitted to vote in an election held there. District representatives may be elected by a first-past-the-post system, a proportional representative system, or another voting method. They may be selected by a direct election under universal suffrage, an indirect election, or another form of suffrage. Terminology The names for electoral districts vary across countries and, oc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
İhsan Arslan
Mehmet İhsan Arslan (born 1 January 1948 in Sason) is a Turkish businessman and politician of Kurdish origin, a founding member of the deputy for the Justice and Development Party (AKP) and also a former member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey He was a part-owner of the '' Zaman'' newspaper, and in the 1990s was Vice-President of the Islamist human rights organization '' Mazlum-Der''.derechos.orgDerechos: Human Rights Briefs Sept. 2 to Sept. 8, 1996/ref> As such he was involved into the negotiations with the Kurdistan Workers' Party to achieve a release of captive Turkish soldiers and was shortly detained for this. He was elected to the Turkish parliament as a representative of Diyarbakir for the pro-Kurdish Democratic People's Party (DEHAP) in the parliamentarian elections of 2002. He later was involved in the founding of the AKP and in the parliamentary elections in 2007 he was elected as a representative of Diyarbakir. and was denied the chance to run for re-election ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emine Ayna
Emine Ayna, (1 July 1968, Dicle, Diyarbakir, Turkey) is Turkish Kurd politician She was a member of the former Democratic Society Party (DTP). She joined the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP), after the Constitutional Court banned DTP on 11 December 2009. Life and career Emine Ayna was born in Dicle in 1968, to mother Günay and father Osman. She is a niece of Ömer Ayna, one of ten victims of the Kızıldere Operation (30 March 1972). She is a high school graduate and founder of the Rainbow Women's Association. In 2007, she stood as an independent candidate within the Thousand Hopes alliance in the Turkish parliamentary elections, receiving 15.57% of the vote in Mardin and entering the Turkish Parliament. On 20 July 2008, she was elected to the DTP leadership, sharing this position with Ahmet Türk. She also became Chair of the DTP Parliamentary Group, when Ahmet Türk resigned. She is widely viewed as a hardliner in demanding Kurdish cultural and political rights. In June ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gültan Kışanak
Gültan Kışanak (born 15 June 1961) is a Kurdish journalist, author and politician from Turkey. Kışanak was born in Elazığ in 1961. Her family is originally from Dersim Tunceli ( ku, Dêrsim) is a city and municipality in eastern Turkey. It is the capital of Tunceli Province, located in the middle of the Eastern Anatolia Region. The city has a Kurdish-majority population and was a site of the Dersim rebellion. .... She is a former member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey and Mayor of Diyarbakır. She has been imprisoned since October 2016. Education She began studying at the Faculty of Education of Dicle University in 1978 but was arrested in 1980 and was imprisoned in the Diyarbakır Prison, Diyarbakir Prison for two years. According to her own account, she had to stay in the dog kennel of the prison warden for two months because she refused to stand up in his presence. In another speech, she said that she slept in a dog hut for six months. She began studying ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Republican People's Party
The Republican People's Party ( tr, Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi, , acronymized as CHP ) is a Kemalist and social-democratic political party in Turkey which currently stands as the main opposition party. It is also the oldest political party in Turkey, founded by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the first president and founder of the modern Turkish Republic. The party is also cited as the founding party of modern Turkey. The CHP describes itself as a ''modern social-democratic party, which is faithful to the founding principles and values of the Republic of Turkey". Its logo consists of the Six Arrows, which represent the foundational principles of Kemalism: republicanism, reformism, laicism (Laïcité/Secularism), populism, nationalism, and statism. It is the main opposition party to the ruling conservative Justice and Development Party (AKP) in the Grand National Assembly with 135 MPs. The political party has its origins in the various resistance groups founded during the Turki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Selahattin Demirtaş
Selahattin Demirtaş (born 10 April 1973) is a politician, author, and former member of the parliament of Turkey. He was the co-leader of the left-wing pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), serving alongside Figen Yüksekdağ from 2014 to 2018. Demirtaş was the presidential candidate of the HDP in the 2014 presidential election, coming in third place. He led the HDP to gather 13.1% at the June 2015 parliament elections and 10.7% in the snap elections in November 2015, coming 4th in each election. He has been imprisoned since 4 November 2016 and despite his imprisonment the HDP fielded Demirtaş as its candidate for the 2018 presidential election, running his campaign from prison. In a judgement given in December 2020, the European Court of Human Rights judged that, given "the timing of emirtaşcontinued detention (coinciding with an important constitutional referendum and the presidential election)" and Turkey's "systemic trend of “gagging” dissenting voices", ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sibel Yiğitalp
Sibel Yiğitalp (1 February 1971, Mardin, Turkey) is a politician of Kurdish descent and a former member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey for the People's Democratic Party (HDP). Early life and education Sibel Yiğitalp was born in Mardin and studied Health Sciences at the Ondokuz Mayıs University from where she graduated with a master's degree. Onwards she worked as a manager in various healthcare institutions. She was a member of the Democratic Society Congress (DTK) and the Health Workers Union. Political career In the Parliamentary Elections of June 2015 she was elected to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey representing Diyarbakir for the HDP. She was re-elected in the snap elections in November 2015. Political views As an MP she defended the rights of the Kurds during the curfews in 2016 demanding answers to the imposition of curfews in the Diyarbakir province and attempted to visit the by a curfew affected locality of Silvan together with the Diyarba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leyla Zana
Leyla Zana (born 3 May 1961) is a Kurdish politician from Kurdish descent. She was imprisoned for ten years for her political activism, which was deemed by the Turkish courts to be against the unity of the country. She was awarded the 1995 Sakharov Prize by the European Parliament but was unable to collect it until her release in 2004. She was also awarded the Rafto Prize in 1994 after being recognized by the Rafto Foundation for being incarcerated for her peaceful struggle for the human rights of the Kurdish people in Turkey and the neighbouring countries. Early life She was born in May 1961, in Silvan, Diyarbakır Province, in the southeast of Turkey. When she was 14 years old, she was married to Mehdi Zana, who became the mayor of Diyarbakır three years later in 1977 until the military coup d'état and a political prisoner after it. Political career After the arrest of her husband Mahdi Zana, she and other relatives of prisoners tried to raise awareness for the prisoners s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Independent (politician)
An independent or non-partisan politician is a politician not affiliated with any political party or bureaucratic association. There are numerous reasons why someone may stand for office as an independent. Some politicians have political views that do not align with the platforms of any political party, and therefore choose not to affiliate with them. Some independent politicians may be associated with a party, perhaps as former members of it, or else have views that align with it, but choose not to stand in its name, or are unable to do so because the party in question has selected another candidate. Others may belong to or support a political party at the national level but believe they should not formally represent it (and thus be subject to its policies) at another level. In running for public office, independents sometimes choose to form a party or alliance with other independents, and may formally register their party or alliance. Even where the word "independent" is used, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akın Birdal
Akın Birdal (born 2 January 1948, Niğde, Niğde Province, Turkey) is a Turkish human rights activist and politician. He was a member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey for the Democratic Society Party (DTP) (2007 to 2009) and the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) from 2009 to 2011. He is an honorary President of the Human Rights Association of Turkey (IHD), having been its chair from 1992 to 1998. He has published a number of essays and short stories. He is married with two children. Education and early life Birdal is an agricultural engineer by training, graduating from Ankara University Faculty of Agriculture, Soil Science Department.kimkimdir.gen.trAkın Birdal (1948 - .... )/ref> He went on to do a master's degree in business at the Gazi University from where he graduated in 1973. As a university student, he was involved in several agricultural associations. His academic career, begun in 1979, was cut short by the 1980 Turkish coup d'état, and for a time he made a l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
İmam Taşçıer
İmam Taşçıer (1 January 1959, Bismil, Turkey) is a Kurdish politician of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) and member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. Political career İmam Taşçıer was elected to the Turkish Parliament representing the HDP for Diyarbakır in the Parliamentary elections June 2015 and re-elected in the snap elections of November 2015 and the parliamentary elections of June 2018. He encouraged the Turkish Government led by the Justice and Development Party (AKP) to release Kurdish prisoners, recognizing Kurdish rights in Turkey and establishing good relations with the Syrian Kurds in exchange for Kurdish votes for the Istanbul mayoral elections on the 23 June 2019. Legal prosecution Taşçıer was detained twice during his political career. Once together with twelve politicians of the HDP including the party co-chairs Selahattin Demirtaş and Figen Yüksekdağ on the 4 November 2016 but released shortly after. Nevertheless, he was prosec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ziya Pir
Ziya Pir (born 1970 in Torul, Gümüşhane Province, Turkey) is a Turkish and German entrepreneur and politician of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP). Early life and education Born in Turkey, Pir mostly grew up in Western Germany. Affiliated with the German liberal-conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party, in 1999, Pir joined the CDU German-Turkish Forum. In 2002, he was tasked by Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan with developing an organization for Turkish expatriates in Germany, the Union of European-Turkish Democrats (UETD). Appalled by both the UETD's increasing alignment with the AKP party and Erdoğans increasingly authoritarian conduct, he later broke with both. Political career in Turkey Pir, who is a nephew of the famous ethnic Turkish co-founder of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, Kemal Pir, in 2015 decided to return to Turkey in order to join the newly founded pro-Kurdish opposition party HDP. In the June 2015 general election he was ele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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