Emine Ülker Tarhan

Emine Ülker Tarhan

Emine Ülker Tarhan (born November 29, 1963 in Tarsus ) is a Turkish lawyer and member of parliament.

Until mid-March 2011, Tarhan was a judge in the 4th Criminal Senate of the Court of Cassation in Ankara and president of the professional association of judges and prosecutors YARSAV, which she co-founded in 2006 . She is one of the critics of the Turkish constitutional referendum in 2010 and advocates equal rights for women in working life. In 2011, Tarhan resigned from her position as judge and chaired the Yarsav professional association to run for the opposition Republican People's Party (CHP). Compared to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , she commented: “It was no longer a question of justice.” The arrest of Ahmet Şık in March 2011 encouraged her to resign . In the parliamentary elections in June 2011 , she became a member of the strongest opposition party , the Republican People's Party, elected to the Grand National Assembly.

At the end of October 2014 she left the CHP and founded her own party, the Anatolia Party .

Tarhan is married and has two children. Her book Beni Susturabilecek Tek Şey was published in 2014 .

Positions

At an event organized by the Office for Integration on April 1, 2011 in Frankfurt am Main , Tarhan gave a speech about violations of freedom of expression and freedom of the press in Turkey. Of the 119,298 individual complaints due to violations of the European Convention on Human Rights , which are before the responsible European Court of Justice , 33,568 were filed by citizens and non-governmental organizations from Turkey.

Tarhan criticized the decline in the proportion of women in the Turkish judiciary to almost 0% in the 2011 Supreme Court election. The proportion of Alevis in the Turkish judiciary was also zero. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan would have special courts and high-security tracts built for thousands of people in Silivri , the capital of the district of the same name in the province of İstanbul .

She accuses Erdoğan of “promoting violence against women in Turkey”. In 2011, Tarhan criticized the domestic Turkish prosecution for public recognition of the Armenian genocide under Article 301 (“degrading the Turkish nation”) of the Turkish Penal Code and called for the prosecution to be abolished.

Works

• Beni Susturabilecek Tek Şey Istanbul 2014, Ka kitap publishing house , ISBN 9786056430848

Individual evidence

1. ^ Message from the Sabah
2. ↑ Emine Ülker Tarhan: I don't want to be a puppet of the government. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , April 11, 2011, accessed on February 21, 2013.
3. ↑ Emine Ülker Tarhan. In: Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi (Turkish).
4. ↑ Freedom of expression is a long time coming. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , April 2, 2010, accessed on October 2, 2011.
5. ↑ Michael Martens: "Erdogan favors violence against women" In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , June 12, 2011, accessed on September 21, 2013 (interview).