Fatma Kaplan Hürriyet (born 20 March 1982) is a

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lawyer and politician from the

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 ...

(CHP) who served as the

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for Kocaeli from June 2015 till her election as Mayor of

İzmit İzmit () is a district and the central district of Kocaeli province, Turkey. It is located at the Gulf of İzmit in the Sea of Marmara, about east of Istanbul, on the northwestern part of Anatolia. As of the last 31/12/2019 estimation, the c ...

in the 2019 local elections. In January 2017, Fatma Kaplan Hürriyet was allegedly strangled by AKP Parliamentary Group Leader

Mustafa Elitaş Mustafa Elitaş (5 January 1957, Kayseri) is a Turkish politician who served as the Economy Minister of Turkey from 24 November 2015 to 24 November 2016. Elitaş graduated from the Department of Economics and Public Finance of Ankara University ...

after she filmed Elitaş and Prime Minister

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casting open votes at parliamentary voting for constitutional amendments. Hürriyet was one of 15 CHP deputies to join the

Good Party The Good Party ( Turkish: ''İyi Parti'') is a nationalist, national conservative, Kemalist, and liberal democrat political party in Turkey, established on 25 October 2017 by its current leader Meral Akşener. Their fraternal party is the liber ...

on 21 April 2018. She rejoined the CHP less than a month later. In the 2019 local elections, Hürriyet was elected mayor of

with 50% of the vote. She was sworn in on April 15.https://www.enkocaeli.com/2019/04/15/fatma-kaplan-hurriyet-resmeen-izmit-belediye-baskani/

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