Ayla Akat Ata

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Ayla Akat Ata (born February 16, 1976 in Diyarbakır , Turkey ) is a Kurdish politician, lawyer and member of the Turkish parliament . She belongs to the Zaza population .

Ata graduated from the Law Faculty of Dicle University Diyarbakir law and later worked as a defense lawyer of jailed PKK -Führers Abdullah Ocalan .

In the parliamentary elections in 2007 , she was elected as an independent candidate in the Turkish National Assembly for the Batman constituency. She then joined the Democratic Society Party (DTP) . After the DTP was banned on December 11, 2009, she became a member of the successor party, Party of Peace and Democracy (BDP) . In the 2011 parliamentary elections in Turkey , Ata was re-elected in her Batman constituency.

In September 2007, Ata and MP Aysel Tuğluk were accused of “propaganda for a banned organization” and “supporting a terrorist organization”.

Ata is a member of the Human Rights Association (IHD) . She is married and has one child.

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  1. ^ Turkish State steps up pressure on kurdish politicians . Jamestown Foundation website. Retrieved January 3, 2013.