Mithat Sancar

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Mithat Sancar (2015)

Mithat Sancar (* 1963 in Nusaybin ) is a Turkish professor of public and constitutional law , columnist and translator. Since the parliamentary elections in June 2015 , he has been a member of the Turkish parliament for the pro-Kurdish party HDP .

biography

Early life and academic career

Sancar attended high school in Diyarbakır and graduated from Ankara University with a law degree with a focus on public law. In 1995 he obtained his doctorate with a thesis on the "Interpretation of Basic Rights" ( Turkish : Temel Hakların Yorumu ). In 1999 he became a lecturer with a thesis on the rule of law and has been a full professor at Ankara University since 2007. Together with the political scientist Tanıl Bora , he translated Jürgen Habermas ' habilitation thesis Structural Change of the Public into the Turkish language.

Political activities

Mithat Sancar was involved in the establishment of the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (based in Ankara) in 1990 and the Institute for Human Rights TIHAK ( Türkiye İnsan Hakları Kurumu ) in 1999 . From 1998 to 2003 Sancar and Tanıl Bora organized the annual conference of the IHD ( İnsan Hakları Derneği - Human Rights Association). In 2007 he started working as a columnist for the daily BirGün .

Before the parliamentary elections in June 2015, he was asked by Selahattin Demirtaş , one of his former students and one of the two HDP chairmen whether he was ready to run for a seat in parliament. Sancar decided to do so and suspend his academic career. In Turkey there is the unusually high 10 percent hurdle ; By 2015, this had meant that no Kurdish party had made it into parliament. Sancar wanted to help help the HDP over the 10 percent hurdle. He ran for No. 1 on the HDP list in the Mardin constituency. In the early parliamentary election on November 1, 2015 , he was also elected to parliament.

In November 2015, Sancar and three other HDP MPs ( Erol Dora , Gülser Yıldırım and Ali Atalan ) started a hunger strike to protest the state of emergency and curfew in the border town of Nusaybin. Since November 13, 2015, 70% of the city districts were cut off from electricity and 30% of the city districts from the water supply; allegedly this measure was directed against militant YDG-H members.

Sancar gained national political attention in Germany through a greeting at a party convention of Alliance 90 / The Greens in November 2015.

Since February 2020 he has been co-chair of the HDP.

Personal

Sancar is a cousin of Aziz Sancar , winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Mithat Sancar calls Arabic his mother tongue ; He spoke Kurdish 'on the street'. He also speaks Turkish , English and German.

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See also

Footnotes

This article was translated from Wikipedia on November 4th.

  1. ↑ a b c d Beyza Kural / Bianet : Sancar, Akademiden Meclis'e Giden Yolda Mardin'de (Sancar, from Academia to Parliament via Merdin) May 20, 2015
  2. ↑ Four HDP MPs start curfew hunger strike against Nusaybin curfew
  3. ↑ Markus Decker: Greens: Party convention of self-criticism in Münster . In: Berliner Zeitung . ( berliner-zeitung.de [accessed on November 15, 2016]).
  4. ^ Turkish-American scientist among winners of 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
personal data
SURNAME Sancar, Mithat
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish-Kurdish MP and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Nusaybin , Turkey