Sırrı Sakık (born 1 August 1957, Yörecik, Muş Province,

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journalist and politician. He is a member of the

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and Mayor of Ağrı. He was elected in the

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Background

Sakık is the brother of former

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(PKK) commander

Şemdin Sakık Şemdin Sakık (born Muş Province, Turkey 1959), nicknamed ''Semo'' or ''Parmaksiz Zeki'' (fingerless Zeki) for having lost a finger while firing a rocket, is a former commander of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)'s military forces. He is be ...

. His brother Abdul Samed Sakık, a Democracy Party (DEP) politician who was the party's chair in

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, was assassinated on 2 October 1993. Sakık was involved in the tourism sector and was also a journalist for '' Cumhuriyet'' and ''

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''.

Political career

Sakık was first elected to the

in 1991 on a ticket of the Social Democratic People's Party (SHP). He was a founding member of the Democracy Party (DEP) in 1993, and was one of the DEP deputies sentenced in 1994 to 15 years in prison for links with Kurdish militants, after their

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was revoked. He was later released, and played a role in the People's Democracy Party (HADEP), being arrested after a 1996 incident in which masked men dropped the Turkish flag at its party congress and raised the PKK flag (Sakık had walked out in protest, but later said all flags should be respected). He was a founding member of the Democratic Society Party (DTP) in 2005 and entered parliament again in 2007, technically running as an independent. He was deputy chairman of the DTP. He was re-elected in 2011 for the

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Sırrı Sakık (1957 - .... )
/ref> In 2012 he displayed a bullet in parliament, which he said had been sent to him as a death threat. On 15 September 2012 his son Sedar Sakık committed suicide by jumping from the balcony of his house. In the 2014 local elections he was elected as mayor of Ağrı. In March 2017 he was suspended from his office as Mayor by the Turkish Minister of the Interior. A trustee was appointed instead for Ağrı Municipality.

Political positions

He supported women's participation in politics and opposed the electoral process which included a 10% threshold for parties which forced politicians of the DTP to present themselves as independent candidates. He also supported a Kurdish participation in a political and democratic environment.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sakik, Sirri 1957 births Living people People from Muş Province Democracy Party (Turkey) politicians Democratic Society Party politicians Democratic Regions Party politicians Deputies of Muş Cumhuriyet people Members of the 24th Parliament of Turkey Members of the 23rd Parliament of Turkey People expelled from public office People's Labor Party politicians Members of the 28th Parliament of Turkey Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party politicians