Selina Özuzun Doğan (born Selina Özuzun in 1977), aka Selina Doğan, is a Turkish politician of

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ethnicity who served as a member of the

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, between 2015 and 2018. She became one of the first

members of Turkey’s parliament in decades, alongside Markar Esayan ( AKP) and

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( HDP).

Family life

She was born in 1977 in

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. After completing her secondary education at the French high school

Lycée Notre Dame de Sion Istanbul Lycée Notre Dame de Sion Istanbul () is a French private high school located in the Harbiye, Şişli neighbourhood of Istanbul, Turkey. It was founded in 1856. The high school was established in the Ottoman Empire as a missionary school for gir ...

, she received a degree in law at

Galatasaray University Galatasaray University (, ) is a public university established in Istanbul, Turkey in 1992, following an agreement signed in the presence of President François Mitterrand of France and President Turgut Özal of Turkey during a ceremony at Gala ...

, and then took a master's degree from

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. Furthermore, she began her professional career working in a law firm and serving as a lawyer for the minority foundations. She is married and has two children.

Politician career

Selina Özuzun Doğan was nominated as a candidate for the June 2015 general election by the

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(CHP). Upon agreeing with the proposal of minority groups to have a representative in the parliament,

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, leader of CHP, put her name on the first place of the party's candidate list for Istanbul 2nd Constituency. On June 7, 2015, she was elected into the parliament, and became so the first Armenian members of the Grand National Assembly in decades alongside

( HDP) and Markar Esayan ( AKP). Apart from Hermine Kalustyan, who served six months in the Constituent Assembly of Turkey () after her appointment by the military junta following the

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, Özuzun Doğan is the only female Armenian member of the parliament in the history of Turkish politics. She was not re-nominated as a CHP candidate for the 2018 general election.

References

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