Ziya Pir

Ziya Pir (* 1970 in Torul , Gümüşhane Province ) is a politician and member of the HDP (Democratic Party of the Peoples) in the Turkish Parliament . He came to Germany in 1979 at the age of 9, graduated from high school, completed vocational training in Biberach and studied in Bochum . In 2015 he ran for the HDP and was elected to the Turkish parliament on June 7, 2015 and in the new elections on November 1, 2015 for the Diyarbakır province . He is u. a. Member of the Foreign Affairs Committee and the Parliamentary Assembly of NATO . On the night of November 4, 2016, he was arrested along with 12 other HDP MPs and was briefly in police custody.

Ziya Pir is a nephew of Kemal Pir , one of the founders of the underground organization Workers' Party of Kurdistan (PKK).

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Data on Ziya Pir on the website of the Turkish Parliament

personal data
SURNAME	Pir, Ziya
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Turkish politician and MP for the HDP (Democratic Party of the Peoples) in the Turkish Parliament
DATE OF BIRTH	1970
PLACE OF BIRTH	Torul , Gümüşhane Province