Fatma Kurtulan

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Fatma Kurtulan (born March 1, 1964 , Kahramanmaraş , Turkey ) is a Kurdish politician and former member of the Barış ve Demokrasi Partisi (BDP) in the Turkish parliament .

After graduating from high school in Pazarcık , Kurtulan worked on social projects for the Küçükdikili administration in Adana Province . Kurtulan was chairman of the women's organization of the Halkın Demokrasi Partisi .

Kurtulan ran as an independent candidate for the parliamentary elections in Turkey in 2007 for the province of Van . After the election, she joined the Democratic Toplum Partisi (DTP). The public prosecutor's office opened a case against Kurtulan on November 9, 2007 because she and two other DTP MPs ( Aysel Tuğluk and Osman Özçelik) were traveling to northern Iraq to have eight kidnapped Turkish soldiers released from the 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.

In the same month Kurtulan admitted that her husband Salman Kurtulan was a member of the PKK. The Turkish media then reported that Salman Kurtulan was in a PKK camp in northern Iraq. Fatma Kurtulan replied that her husband had been separated from her for 13 years and that they were only married on paper.

In May 2009 she advocated a parliamentary investigation into police violence against children.

After the DTP was banned on December 11, 2009, Fatma Kurtulan joined the BDP. Fatma Kurtulan was arrested in mid-January 2012 as part of the operations against the Civakên Kurdistan coma . In the course of the negotiations in January 2013, the public prosecutor demanded 22.5 years in prison.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Meet Our Women Parliamentarians . Bianet. January 13, 2007. Retrieved August 14, 2009.
  2. ^ Gordon Taylor: Alice in Turkeyland . Progressive historians. May 10, 2007. Retrieved August 14, 2009.
  3. ^ Protecting politicians or protecting democracy? . KHRP. July 24, 2008. Retrieved August 14, 2009.
  4. ^ Kurdish MP admits husband with PKK . Institute Kurde de Paris. November 9, 2007. Archived from the original on September 27, 2011. Retrieved on August 14, 2009.
  5. ↑ DTP stives to contain 'terrorist husband' crisis . Today's Zaman. November 9, 2007. Archived from the original on September 30, 2012. Retrieved on August 14, 2009.
  6. ^ Kurdish MP brings police violence to Parliament . Bianet. May 10, 2009. Retrieved August 14, 2009.
  7. ↑ Fatma Kurtulan için 22.5 yıl istendi , report by Radikal from January 17, 2013 (Turkish)

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personal data
SURNAME Kurtulan, Fatma
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish activist and MP
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Kahramanmaraş , Turkey