Mehmet İhsan Arslan (born 1 January 1948 in

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businessman and politician of Kurdish origin, a founding member of the deputy for the

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(AKP) and also a former member of the

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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.org
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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 in 2011 by the AKP, allegedly because of his position on the Kurdish question. He was one of the architects of the AKP policies towards the Kurds, focusing on the bond of the muslim religion between the Kurds and Turks. In an interview he gave to

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Turkey, he emphasized that the AKP policies towards the Kurds were not constructive and if Turkey wouldn't be able to solve the conflict with the

, other countries would step in. His son is Mücahit Arslan, a current parliamentarian for the AKP.

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1948 births People from Sason Living people Deputies of Diyarbakır Justice and Development Party (Turkey) politicians 21st-century Turkish politicians Zaman (newspaper) people Democratic People's Party (Turkey) politicians {{Turkey-politician-stub