Rojda Nazlıer is a

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politician of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) from

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. She was elected as the mayor of

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, in March 2019 but was removed from her post in October 2019 on grounds of an investigation in terror related charges.

Early life and education

Rojda Nazlıer was born in

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in the Diyarbakir province, where she attended primary and secondary school. Before becoming mayor, she worked for several Non Governmental Organizations focused on women related issues.

Political career

She was elected the mayor of the Kocaköy in the municipal elections of March 2019. After an investigation on terror-related charges was opened, she was dismissed by the Turkish Ministry of the Interior on 21 October 2020 and a state-appointed trustee assumed the post of an acting mayor. In her trial, testimonies of secret witnesses who accused her of being a member of the

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(HPG) and allegedly having transformed the buildings in her possession into centers of the HPG were taken into account. Besides, she was accused of having attended the

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festivities and having taken part in a memorial service for the

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Zülküf Hezen. In October 2019, she was transferred from a women's prison in Diyarbakir in

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, to the women's prison of

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in the centre of

. On 14 December 2020, she was sentenced to nine years in prison for being a member of a terrorist organization. On the 17 March 2021, the State Prosecutor for the

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in Turkey

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filed a lawsuit before the

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, demanded for Nazlıer a five-year ban for a political participation within the HDP closure case.

References

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