Hatip Dicle

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Hatip Dicle

Mehmet Hatip Dicle (* 1954 in Diyarbakır ) is a Kurdish politician in Turkey.

In 1979 he completed his engineering studies at İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi . He was involved in political associations as early as the 1970s. He later became a member of the Halkın Emek Partisi (HEP, People's Labor Party).

For the parliamentary elections in 1991 , the HEP entered into an electoral alliance with the social democrat Halkçı Parti from Erdal İnönü . Hatip Dicle, Leyla Zana , Orhan Doğan , Ahmet Türk , Sırrı Sakık , Mahmut Alınak and Selim Sadak were able to move into the Turkish parliament. When Dicle stepped to the pulpit at the swearing-in ceremony on November 6, 1991, Dicle said that he was only taking the oath because of the constitutional obligation. There were loud protests in the gathering. When Leyla Zana added a Kurdish sentence to her oath, there was tumult. Later both had to revoke their first oath of office and take the oath again and in the intended wording. In 1993 the HEP was banned. Because of the impending ban, a successor party, the DEP (Demokrasi Parti, Party of Democracy), was founded beforehand. On December 12, 1993 Dicle was elected party leader of the DEP.

On March 2, 1994, Parliament lifted the political immunity of Dicle and other Kurdish MPs. They were then arrested. On December 8, 1994, a court sentenced the four former MPs Hatip Dicle, Leyla Zana, Orhan Doğan and Selim Sadak to 15 years imprisonment for membership in a terrorist organization - meaning the PKK - and treason . The DEP was then banned on April 16, 1994.

On June 9, 2004, the four convicts were released after renegotiation and pressure from the European Union . However, Dicle continued to be banned from political activity. He helped found the Democracy Toplum Partisi and supported the independent candidates at election events for the 2007 parliamentary elections . When a party ban proceedings against the DTP were initiated, Hatip founded the Barış ve Demokrasi Partisi with other members of the DTP on May 2, 2008 .

During a wave of arrests against alleged members of the Koma Civakên Kurdistan , Dicle was arrested as a member of the BDP in December 2009 and subsequently imprisoned. For the parliamentary elections in June 2011 , Dicle ran from prison as an independent candidate for Diyarbakır Province and was supported by the BDP . He won the election with about 88,000 votes. A few days after the election, the high electoral committee withdrew his mandate due to an 18-month prison sentence for a so-called “propaganda dictate” from April 2010. The electoral committee relied on Article 76 of the Turkish constitution . The candidate Oya Eronat of the ruling party AKP from Diyarbakır province moved up for Dicle. This increased the number of AKP seats in the Turkish parliament by one.

After his release from prison in June 2014, Dicle was elected together with Selma Irmak as chairmen of the political umbrella organization Toplum Kongresi .

On March 28, 2017, Hatip was sentenced to 9 years imprisonment by the 2nd Grand Chamber for Serious Crimes in Diyarbakır for membership of the banned Koma Civakên Kurdistan .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lawsuit Demanding up to 21 Years in Prison Filed Against Leyla Zana . In: Bianet - Bagimsiz Iletisim Agi . ( bianet.org [accessed November 25, 2018]).
  2. ↑ Turkey frees group of Kurds - The Boston Globe. Retrieved November 25, 2018 .
  3. ^ Announcement by Milliyet from September 7, 2014
  4. ↑ KCK Ana Davada Karar Açıklandı , message on Bianet (Turkish Bağımsız İletişim Ağı, independent Turkish news and press agency), March 29, 2017.

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personal data
SURNAME Dicle, Hatip
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dicle, Mehmet Hatip (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Kurdish politician in Turkey
DATE OF BIRTH 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Diyarbakır