Şahmar Dalmış (born in İncesu village,
Susuz
Susuz (, , ) is a town in Kars Province in the Eastern Anatolia region of Turkey. It is the seat of Susuz District. ,
Kars
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) is a
Turkish
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politician from the
Republican People's Party
The Republican People's Party (RPP; , CHP ) is a Kemalism, Kemalist and Social democracy, social democratic political party in Turkey. It is the oldest List of political parties in Turkey, political party in Turkey, founded by Mustafa Kemal ...
(CHP), which he joined in 1996.
Career
Şahmar Dalmış is an engineer and a graduate from
Istanbul Technical University
Istanbul Technical University, also known as Technical University of Istanbul (, commonly referred to as İTÜ), is an public university, public technical university located in Istanbul, Turkey. It is the world's third-oldest technical university ...
(İTÜ). He was a candidate to become a Member of Parliament from Kars as an independent in the
1987 general election and from the
Democratic Left Party in the
1991 general election. In the
2011 general election, he applied to become a candidate from the CHP but failed to make the Kars party list.
Initially a staunch supporter of party leader
Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu
Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu (; born 17 December 1948), also referred to by his initials KK, is a Turkish politician who served as the Leader of the Republican People's Party, leader of the Republican People's Party (CHP) from 2010 to 2023. He was Lis ...
, Dalmış announced his candidacy for the CHP leadership for the
2014 CHP extraordinary convention, but failed to gain any nominations from party delegates.
His speech afterwards which heavily criticised the CHP leadership, who he claimed had attempted to silence his bid for the leadership, received record views.
See also
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Muharrem Ä°nce
Muharrem Ä°nce (; born 4 May 1964) is a Turkish physics teacher, school principal, sport executive, and politician. He is the founder and the incumbent leader of the Homeland Party since May 2021. Formerly a four term Republican People's Party ...
References
External links
Speech following the CHP leadership election
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Contemporary Republican People's Party (Turkey) politicians
Living people
People from Susuz
Year of birth missing (living people)