Selina Özuzun Doğan

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Selina Doğan ( Armenian Սելինա Օզուզուն Տողան , born January 1, 1977 as Selina Özuzun ) is a Turkish lawyer and politician of Armenian ethnicity. As a member of the Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi, she became one of the first Armenian members of the Turkish Parliament since 1964.

Family life

She was born in Istanbul in 1977 as the daughter of the Deputy Mayor of Bakırköy , Yervant Özuzun . After completing her secondary education at the French grammar school Lycée Notre Dame de Sion Istanbul , she studied and graduated from Galatasaray University and completed her master’s degree from Istanbul Bilgi University . She then began her professional career in a law firm and was a lawyer for minority foundations.

In addition to Armenian and Turkish, she speaks French and English.

Political career

Selina Özuzun Doğan was the candidate of the Republican People's Party (CHP) for the parliamentary elections in June 2015 . After an agreement to nominate minorities to represent them in parliament, party leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu put their name on the list of candidates for the second constituency of Istanbul .

On June 7, 2015, she was elected to the Turkish Grand National Assembly and thus became the first Armenian MP since the election of Berç Turan in 1961 - together with Garo Paylan ( HDP ) and Markar Esayan ( AKP ). Besides Hermine Kalustyan, who spent six months in the Constituent Assembly of Turkey ( Kurucu Meclis in Turkish ) after the military coup in 1960 , she is the only female Armenian MP in Turkish history. She was re-elected in the new election in November .

Facing the Armenian genocide of 1915 she said that these possess not a priority for them, the cultural genocide but stopping.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Armenian woman becomes passing MP candidate in Turkey for first time. In: AM. April 7, 2015, accessed June 29, 2015 .
  2. ↑ a b Armenian candidate tops Turkey's main opposition list for elections. In: Hürriyet Daily News . April 7, 2015, accessed June 29, 2015 .
  3. ^ Yackley, Ayla Jean: Gay, Christian, Roma election candidates show Turkey's changing face. In: Reuters . June 5, 2015, accessed June 29, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Karataş, Zeynep: Minority groups take the reins in opposition candidate lists. (No longer available online.) In: Today's Zaman . April 8, 2015, archived from the original on July 6, 2015 ; Retrieved June 29, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.todayszaman.com
  5. ↑ a b Kuyumciyan, Baruyr: Selina Doğan: Fight against hate speech is my priority. In: Agos . June 11, 2015, accessed June 29, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Janbazian, Rupen: Garo payLAN, Selina Özuzun Doğan Speak about Being Armenian, Turkey Politics. In: ANI Armenian Research Center. June 15, 2015, accessed June 29, 2015 .
  7. ^ Three Armenians Elected to Turkish Parliament. In: The Armenian Weekly . June 7, 2015, accessed June 29, 2015 .
  8. ↑ CHP'nin Ermeni Adayı: "Kültürel soykırım devam ediyor". (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on November 17, 2015 ; accessed on November 13, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cagdasses.com
personal data
SURNAME Özuzun Doğan, Selina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Özuzun, Selina; Dogan, Selina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish lawyer and member of parliament
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Istanbul