Şerafettin Kaya
Şerafettin Kaya (* 1929 in Varto , Muş , Turkey ) is a Kurdish lawyer , teacher and human rights activist .
Life
Kaya worked as a school teacher in the Turkish province of Muş and in Ankara and, after studying law, founded a law office in Diyarbakır . From 1971 to 1974 he defended oppositional Kurds in the Kurdish city and in 1976 was one of the founding members of the left-wing organization Rizgari .
As chairman of the Muş Bar Association, he was also a delegate of the Turkish Bar Association in Ankara. After several stays in prison, he managed to escape to Germany in 1982, where he published his experiences as a book. Kaya appears as an expert in asylum procedures and processes in Germany. He advocates mother tongue teaching in the Kurdish language .
Works
- Diyarbakır - Experience in a Turkish prison , Verlag Edition CON, Bremen 1984, ISBN 3-88526-135-9
Web links
- Interview with Şerafettin Kaya in the tractor (spring 2005) (PDF file; 221 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://apa.online.free.fr/article.php3?id_article=41
- ↑ http://www.cinema.de/kino/filmarchiv/film/diyarbakir-ich-schaeme-mich-ein-jurist-zu-sein,92624,ApplicationMovie.html
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kaya, Şerafettin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Kurdish lawyer, teacher and human rights activist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Varto |