Pervin Buldan

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Pervin Buldan (born November 6, 1967 in the province of Hakkâri , Turkey ) is a Kurdish politician. She is a member of the Turkish parliament and has been co-chair of the Halkların Demokratik Partisi (HDP) since February 2018 . She was co-founder and in 2002 chairwoman of the Yakay-Der association, which supported families of disappeared Kurds.

Life

Buldan grew up in Hakkari and attended school there. Later she worked in the local administration. At the age of 19 she married Savaş Buldan, who was politically active. The couple moved to Istanbul in 1990, where Pervin Buldan was a housewife. Savaş Buldan rose to become a well-known Kurdish businessman. In 1992 he was arrested in Istanbul for possession of weapons. The first child was born a year later.

In 1993 her life changed when Prime Minister Tansu Çiller published a list of business people who supported the PKK financially and wanted to hold them accountable. With this, Tansu Çiller began a new strategy against the PKK, with which she wanted to drain its financial sources. It began a period of political assassinations ( Turkish Faili meçhul cinayetler ). Soon Savaş Buldan received threats over the phone. On June 2, 1994, he and two friends named Adnan Yıldırım and Hacı Karay were abducted by gunmen while they were leaving the Hotel Çınar in Yeşilköy / Istanbul. Two days later, their bodies were found on the Melen River in Bolu Province . They showed signs of torture and were shot in the head. Pervin's daughter was born on the same day.

politics

In the following years Buldan began to get involved in political and human rights associations. Among other things, she was a member of the Mag-Der association, which was later banned for violating the Turkish association law. In 2001 Pervin Buldan founded the association Yakınlarını Kaybeden Ailelerle Yardımlaşma ve Dayanışma Derneği (German: Relief and support association for families who have lost their relatives, or Yakay-Der for short ), of which she was the president. Yakay-Der was banned in 2016 and was in the tradition of the Saturday Mothers , who gained general notoriety through civil disobedience and weekly sit-ins in Galatasaray Square and who drew attention to the fate of those who had disappeared . Buldan is also a Saturday mother himself.

Buldan ran as an independent candidate for the parliamentary elections in Turkey in 2007 for Iğdır Province . After the election, she joined the Democratic Toplum Partisi (DTP). After the DTP was banned on December 11, 2009, Pervin Buldan joined the BDP. For the parliamentary elections in June 2011 , she ran as an independent candidate for Iğdır and was re-elected. In the parliamentary elections that followed, she successfully ran for the HDP and has been a member of parliament from Istanbul since November 2015.

In February 2018 she was elected co-chair of the Halkların Demokratik Partisi together with Sezai Temelli .

Law enforcement and litigation

Proceedings were initiated against her in 2008 because of a Newroz address in Iğdır.

The day after Buldan's election as party leader of the HDP, the Ankara Public Prosecutor opened an investigation against her and MP Sırrı Süreyya Önder on suspicion of "terror propaganda", "inciting the people to hatred and hostility" and "glorifying criminals" in their party conference speeches.

Web links

Commons : Pervin Buldan  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Pervin Buldan - Turkey . World People's Blog. January 29, 2008. Retrieved August 18, 2009.
  2. ↑ La Fondation du Yakar-Der . ICAD. December 2005. Archived from the original on January 3, 2013. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 16, 2009.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.icad-committee.com
  3. ↑ a b c d Portrait: The new co-leaders of HDP -Pervin Buldan and Sezai Temelli | Ahval . In: Ahval . ( ahvalnews.com [accessed August 22, 2018]).
  4. ↑ http://www.ekurd.net/mismas/articles/misc2008/3/turkeykurdistan1762.htm . Kurd Net. March 25, 2008. Retrieved January 1, 2010.
  5. ↑ Turkey: Authorities are investigating the new HDP boss . In: ZEIT ONLINE . ( zeit.de [accessed on July 22, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Buldan, pervin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish-Kurdish human rights activist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Hakkâri (Province) , Turkey