Selim Sadak, (born 1954 in

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Okimdir.com, Erişim Tarihi: 6 December 2008.) is a Turkish politician of

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origin.

Background

Selim Sadak graduated from the Mathematics department of Diyarbakır Eğitim Enstitüsü. He then worked as a freelancer in Kurdish, English and Arabic. He is married and has 10 children.

Political career

In the 1991 Turkey Parliamentary general election, he joined

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, Sırrı Sakık and Sedat Yurtdaş in the Social Democratic Populist Party (SHP) and was elected as the member of parliament for

in the 19th Parliament of Turkey. In March 1994, the

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was lifted from Selim Sadak, Orhan Dogan, Hatip Dicle and Leyla Zana. On 16 June 1994 the Democracy Party (DEP) was closed down by the

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, and Selim Sadak, along with other members of the party, were put in prison. Based on a decision by the State Security Court he was sentenced to 15 years in prison in 1994. In April 2004 the

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condemned the imprisonment of Sadak and hoped for the quashing of the sentence in a resolution. He was released in June 2004 following a decision of Turkey's Appeal Court.

Later career and prosecution

Following his release from prison, Sadak toured the countryside testing the possibilities of founding a new party. At the time he saw it difficult a Kurdish party could be formed without referencing Öcalan. Sadak along with Leyla Zana and Hatip Dicle set up the

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(DTP) and was elected mayor of

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under the DTP, receiving 49,4% of the votes in the

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in March 2009. In December 2009, however, Turkey banned the DTP due to alleged links with the PKK and Selim Sadak as well as Ahmet Türk, Aysel Tuğluk, Leyla Zana and

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, were banned from politics for 5 years. In 2010 he was dismissed by the Interior Ministry as Mayor of Siirt after a sentence of 10 months imprisonment from 2008 got confirmed, a decision he objected. Then the Council of State Administrative Trials Board General Council overruled the decision of the Interior Ministry to dismiss Sadak and ruled he can stay Mayor of Siirt until the end of his term. On 26 April 2010 he was sentenced of 1 year imprisonment because he used the word Kurdistan and on the 13 April to 10 months imprisonment for a photo depicted in a calendar of 2010. In August 2011 he was sentenced in Siirt Criminal Court to five months in prison, a sentence which was later converted to a fine. On 7 October 2011 he was sentenced in Diyarbakir court to one year and eight months prison for terrorist propaganda in relation to a speech that he made in 2007.

References

External links

Selim Sadak web site
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