Aysel Tuğluk

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Aysel Tuğluk (born July 17, 1965 in the province of Elazığ ) is a Kurdish politician in Turkey .

Life

Tuğluk is a graduate of Istanbul University Faculty of Law and worked as a freelance attorney. Tuğluk was a member or founder of several non-governmental organizations such as the Toplumsal Hukuk Araştırmaları Vakfı , İnsan Hakları Derneği (Human Rights Association) and the Yurtsever Kadınlar Derneği (Association of Patriotic Women). She represented Abdullah Öcalan as a lawyer . Her brother Alaattin Tuğluk is friends with Öcalan. From 2005 she became a member of the pro-Kurdish party Democracy Toplum Partisi (DTP) and for a while became party leader together with Ahmet Türk . At the DTP party conference on October 9, 2007, she was voted out of office because of her passive nature and willingness to compromise .

In the parliamentary elections in Turkey in 2007 , she ran as an independent candidate for Diyarbakır Province . Although the DTP remained under the 10% blocking clause , the party was able to send 20 members to parliament in this way.

The Turkish public prosecutor's office opened a case against Tuğluk on November 9, 2007 because she was traveling to northern Iraq with two other DTP MPs ( Fatma Kurtulan and Osman Özçelik) to have eight kidnapped Turkish soldiers released from the violence of the Kurdish Workers' Party ( PKK ). The soldiers were kidnapped during a PKK attack on a military convoy in Yüksekova in October 2007 . The Prosecutor asked Parliament to waive the political immunity of the three MPs.

On December 11, 2009, the DTP was banned by the Turkish Constitutional Court . Tuğluk was removed from her mandate and banned from political activity for five years. But after the constitutional amendment with the 2010 referendum , she returned to politics and ran in the parliamentary elections on June 12, 2011 for the province of Van . Tuğluk won the election and returned to parliament.

In August 2011, Tuğluk was sentenced by a Turkish court to a two-year prison term for propaganda for the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). The background to this was a speech she gave in March 2010. In the opinion of the judges, it was “terrorist propaganda”. Tuğluk, on the other hand, described her speech as a call for peace. In the speech you only suggested accepting Öcalan as a discussion partner on the Kurdish question.

On December 26, 2016, Tuğluk was arrested by an anti-terrorist unit of the Turkish police. She was arrested in the course of an investigation by the public prosecutor's office in the Kurdish metropolis of Diyarbakır in Ankara.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ömer Şahin, Kürtçe konuşmayı, DTP'li vekillerin üçte biri anlamadı ( Memento of the original from March 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Zaman . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zaman.com.tr
  2. ↑ TURKEY: Secret meeting on the island . In: Der Spiegel . tape June 25 , 2011 ( spiegel.de [accessed September 5, 2018]).
  3. ↑ AYSEL TUĞLUK - Öcalan'ın avukatı, çocukluk yıllarından beri PKK'ya yakın ( Memento of the original from May 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Zaman article , accessed December 13, 2009  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zaman.com.tr
  4. ↑ DTP'de Nurettin Demirtaş genel başkan , article on NTV , accessed on December 13, 2009
  5. ↑ DTP 'şahinler'in kanatları altında , Milliyet article , accessed on December 13, 2009
  6. ↑ Kürtlerin içinde de çözüm istemeyenler var , article by Yeni Şafak , accessed on December 13, 2009
  7. ^ Gordon Taylor: Alice in Turkeyland. Progressive historians, May 10, 2007, accessed August 14, 2009 .
  8. ^ Protecting politicians or protecting democracy? KHRP, July 24, 2008, accessed August 14, 2009 .
  9. ↑ DTP kapatıldı , articles of Sabah , accessed 13 December 2009
  10. ↑ Imprisonment for Kurdish politician. Der Standard , August 2, 2011, accessed August 4, 2011 .
  11. ↑ Anti-terror police arrests HDP vice chief. Zeit Online, December 26, 2016, accessed December 26, 2016 .

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personal data
SURNAME Tuğluk, Aysel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Elazığ (Province)