Nurettin DemirtaÅŸ (born 1972) was a former
Kurdish
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politician of the
Democratic Society Party
The Democratic Society Party (, DTP, Kurdish: ''Partiya Civaka Demokratîk'', PCD) was a Kurdish nationalist political party in Turkey. The party considered itself social-democratic and had observer status in the Socialist International. It was c ...
(DTP) in
Turkey
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and a member of the
Kurdistan Workers' Party
The Kurdistan Workers' Party, or the PKK, isDespite the PKK's 12th Congress announcing plans for total organisational dissolution, the PKK has not yet been dissolved de facto or de jure. a Kurds, Kurdish militant political organization and armed ...
(PKK).
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Early life and education
He grew up and attended secondary school in Diyarbakır
Diyarbakır is the largest Kurdish-majority city in Turkey. It is the administrative center of Diyarbakır Province.
Situated around a high plateau by the banks of the Tigris river on which stands the historic Diyarbakır Fortress, it is ...
. He then studied business at university in MuÄŸla
MuÄŸla () is a city in southwestern Turkey. The city is the center of the district of MenteÅŸe, MuÄŸla, MenteÅŸe and MuÄŸla Province, which stretches along Turkey's Aegean Sea, Aegean coast. MuÄŸla's center is situated inland at an altitude of ...
, where he was arrested in 1993 for his political activities. He spent the following 12 years in prison. After his release he became the founding president of an association for the development of civil society. On 28 May 2006 he was arrested after having attended a funeral of members of the PKK and spent 4 months in prison.
Political career
He was elected the vice-president in February 2007 and president of the DTP on 9 December 2007, at the party's second general assembly. As a politician he was a peace activist and in September 2007, he and Selma Irmak were prosecuted for having mistreated the Turkish nation for having distributed leaflets criticizing the Turkish military on International World Peace Day. The investigation over a violating the Article 301 of the Turkish penal code was dismissed only in May 2008.
On 17 December 2007 he was arrested on his return from a European tour and imprisoned on charges of forging a document to evade military conscription. He was released 28 April 2008 by a military court and enlisted in the army the following day. Turkish men are required to serve in the army for up to 15 months after the age of 20 unless they have health problems that prevent them from fulfilling military duty. In May 2008 he resigned from the presidency of the DTP. On 9 November 2009 he was sentenced to 6 years and 3 months for having attended a funeral of PKK militants, a sentence he appealed.Anadolu agency
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History
The Anadolu Agency was founded in 1920 during the Turkish War of Independence by the order of Mustafa Kemal Pasha. As the Empire's capital â ...
reported its armed forces had wounded Nurettin in 2015.Selahattin DemirtaÅŸ
Selahattin Demirtaş (born 10 April 1973) is a Kurdish politician, lawyer and author. He was the co-leader of the left-wing pro- Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), serving alongside Figen Yüksekdağ from 2014 to 2018. Selahattin Demirt ...
is his brother and former chairman of HDP.
References
1972 births
Turkish Kurdish politicians
Living people
Democratic Regions Party politicians
Democratic Society Party politicians
Turkish prisoners and detainees
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Members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party
People from Elazığ