Müslüm Doğan (born 15 October 1959) is a Turkish politician of Kurdish origin who served as the Minister of Development in the interim election government formed by Prime Minister

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on 28 August 2015. He was elected as a Member of Parliament for İzmir's second electoral district in the June 2015 general election. He is a member of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP). On 22 September 2015, he resigned from the interim election cabinet and was succeeded by

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Early life and career

Müslüm Doğan was born in

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, on 15 October 1959. He graduated from

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Faculty of Engineering and received a master's degree from

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Department of Urban Planning. Doğan spent much of his career in the Civil Service, working for the Social Security Institution (Turkish: Sosyal Güvenlik Kurumu, abbreviated SGK) as a branch manager and deputy bureau chairman. He retired from the SGK in 2012. Doğan has also participated in the

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(TMMOB) as an executive board member for the Chamber of Surveying Engineers. He was also the President of the Divriği Association and the Pir Sultan Abdal Association. He has written numerous articles regarding his career and also on the topic of

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Political career

Doğan was one of the founding members of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) in 2012 and served on the party's first Central Executive Committee. In the June 2015 general election, he was elected as a HDP Member of Parliament for İzmir's second electoral district.

Minister of Development

Doğan was one of the three HDP MPs invited by Prime Minister

to take part in the interim election government that was formed after coalition negotiations proved unsuccessful and resulted in a new election being called for November 2015. Doğan accepted the invitation. On 28 August 2015, he was appointed as the Minister of Development in the caretaker cabinet.

Resignation

On 22 September 2015, Doğan and the other HDP cabinet minister

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submitted their resignations to Prime Minister

, who accepted and stated that he would appoint their replacements as a matter of urgency. In a press conference shortly after submitting their resignations, the two ministers stated that they had resigned due to disagreements in the interim election cabinet and accused the AKP of ignoring the democratic will of the people to instead create a 'concept of war' in the south-east. They also condemned the AKP's involvement in the dissolution of the Solution process between the government and the

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(PKK) and accused President

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of violating the

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during the government-forming process. Doğan later added that he had resigned due to a surge in attacks against the HDP as well as the election government's refusal to take their concerns about the fairness of the upcoming snap general election into account.

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