Dirayet Taşdemir (born 1982) is a Turkish-Kurdish politician from the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), who has served as a Member of Parliament for the

electoral district An electoral (congressional, legislative, etc.) district, sometimes called a constituency, riding, or ward, is a geographical portion of a political unit, such as a country, state or province, city, or administrative region, created to provi ...

Ağrı Ağrı (; ) is a city in eastern Turkey, near the border with Iran. It is the seat of Ağrı Province and Ağrı District.

Early life and career

Taşdemir was born in

Ağrı Ağrı (; ) is a city in eastern Turkey, near the border with Iran. It is the seat of Ağrı Province and Ağrı District.

in 1982. She graduated from the sociology and archeology departments at

Mersin University Mersin University () is a public university, built in 1992 in Mersin Province, Turkey. It has about 39,000 students, 1,813 academic staff, and a number of foreign and guest academic staff. The university has research and sports facilities, in Me ...

. She has been an activist for women's rights, having participated in several national and international efforts to advance liberties and rights for women.

Political career

Taşdemir's political career began in the

People's Democracy Party People's Democracy Party (, HADEP) was a Kurdish political party in Turkey. Murat Bozlak founded the party on 11 May 1994. The party disbanded in 2003. History Bozlak's first chairmanship Party founder and attorney Murat Bozlak was the part ...

(HADEP) Women's Wing, later becoming an advisor responsible for policies directed towards women at the Diyarbakır Metropolitan Municipality in 2008. She was arrested in 2009 during operations conducted towards the

Kurdistan Communities Union The Kurdistan Communities Union (, KCK) is a Kurdish political organization committed to implementing Abdullah Öcalan's ideology of democratic confederalism. The KCK also serves as an umbrella group for several confederalist political parties o ...

(KCK), spending 5 years in prison. Taşdemir was elected as a HDP Member of Parliament for

Ağrı Ağrı (; ) is a city in eastern Turkey, near the border with Iran. It is the seat of Ağrı Province and Ağrı District.

in the June 2015 general election. On the 17 March 2021, the state prosecutor

Bekir Şahin Bekir Şahin (born 1 March 1960, Mecitözü, Turkey) is a jurist, former judge and the current State Prosecutor of the Court of Cassation in Turkey. Education He was educated at the Imam Hatip school and studied law at the Dokuz Eylül Univer ...

demanded for Taşdemir and 686 other HDP politicians a five-year ban to engage in politics together with a closure of the HDP due to an alleged organizational cooperation with 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)

References

External links

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Tasdemir, Dirayet 1982 births Deputies of Ağrı Members of the 25th Parliament of Turkey Members of the 26th Parliament of Turkey Members of the 27th Parliament of Turkey Living people Peoples' Democratic Party (Turkey) politicians People from Ağrı Turkish women's rights activists 21st-century Turkish women politicians Mersin University alumni