Ahmet Türk

Ahmet Türk ( born July 2, 1942 in Derik, Mardin Province) is a longtime Turkish politician of Kurdish origin and currently an independent deputy in the Turkish parliament.

Family

Ahmet Türk's father Hacı Sinan was a lumberjack and was in the service of his future father and lord Hüyesin KANCO, who was a commander of the Hamidiyereiterei. This bequeathed his entire fortune and the leadership of the tribe Hacı Sinan under the condition that those must marry his eldest daughter Türkiye. With the adoption of the name of the law in Turkey in 1934, the family took the surname Turk. Ahmet Türk is the child of the second wife Hacı Sinan. He lost his father when he was ten years old. His older brother was a member of the Justice Party and was later murdered. So Ahmet Türk took over at the age of 31 years, the leadership of his Eşirets whose name is KANCO.

Political career

Ahmet Türk left for the parliamentary elections in 1973 to change his date of birth from 1946 to 1942 in order to run to. So it was in 1973 for the Parti Democrat deputy of Mardin. His studies at the Higher School of Economics in Ankara, he broke off last semester and held in 1977 as a deputy of the Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi ( CHP briefly ) into parliament. In the next election, his mandate was confirmed. After the military coup of 1980, he was during his 22 -month imprisonment in the notorious prison of Diyarbakir and was, like many other politically active Kurds back then, subjected to torture. Until 1986 he any political activity was prohibited. After a new sentence, he stood as a candidate in 1987 for the Parti Sosyaldemokrat Halkçı and came back as Mardin deputy to parliament. However Türk was established in 1989 ruled with 10 other Kurdish colleagues from the SHP, since they had participated in an independent Kurdistan Conference of the Kurdish Institute in Paris.

Subsequently, he was involved in building the Halkin Emek Partisi, which was founded on June 7, 1990 and took over temporarily the chair of the successor party Demokrasi Partisi (DEP ). 1991 Türk arrived with the DEP in an electoral alliance with the SHP to parliament. However, in 1994 he was arrested with other Kurdish MPs such as Leyla Zana, Dicle and Orhan Doğan Hatip and sat 22 months in prison. In the following years Türk held important positions in the HADEP and DEHAP.

On 25 October 2005, the delegates of the Demokratik Partisi Toplum elected him together with Aysel Tugluk chairman. February 2007, he was confirmed as party chairman. On March 6, 2007, he was the peace court in Diyarbakir because of the use of the salutation " Dear Öcalan " ( SAYIN Ocalan ) sentenced to six months in prison. This is illegal in Turkey to § 215/1 of the Criminal Code. This paragraph provides praising crime and criminals under punishment. For the early parliamentary elections in July 2007 Türk went as an independent candidate in the race. But he had left pro forma from the party. The DTP sent to its members as "independent" candidates in the election to avoid the criticism of the EU's 10% threshold. Ahmet Türk was elected in his home Mardin to MPs and settled again in parliament. By banning the DTP on 11 December 2009 by the Turkish Constitutional Court and the political activity prohibition imposed on him his political career was ended for the time being. However, after the constitutional changes with the referendum in 2010, he returned to politics and was a candidate in the parliamentary elections on 12 June 2011 for the province of Mardin. He was elected and returned to parliament.

Kurdish language in Parliament Building

On 24 February 2009, Ahmet Turk gave a speech in Kurdish in front of his group. State television interrupted the transfer. Later Ahmet Türk was lit due to the Article 81. c ) of the Law No 2820 indicted. The law allows political parties, only the use of the Turkish language. Türk defended himself with the following words:

"If a national television program in Kurdish sends and Prime Minister Erdogan in his choice appearances in the Southeast Kurdish sets says, why should not we speak Kurdish? "

The court ruled in April 2009 that Kurdish in Parliament was not prohibited because speeches in Parliament were not to be regarded as election propaganda speeches. In addition, the use of a language other than Turkish in the house rules of the Parliament is not explicitly prohibited.

Recently, the Turkish politician of Kurdish origin Leyla Zana had supplemented in 1991 their oath of office in the Turkish parliament in the Kurdish language and was imprisoned for ten years.