Fatma Kurtulan

Fatma Kurtulan (* March 1, 1964, Kahramanmaras, Turkey) is a Kurdish politician and former Member of Barış ve Demokrasi Partisi (BDP ) in the Turkish Parliament.

After graduating from high school in Pazarcık Kurtulan worked on social projects of the administration Küçükdikili in the province of Adana. Kurtulan was chairman of the women's organization of the Halkin Partisi Demokrasi.

Kurtulan ran as an independent candidate for the parliamentary elections in Turkey in 2007 for the province of Van. After the election, she joined the Demokratik Toplum Partisi (DTP ) at. The prosecutor's office opened on 9 November 2007, a case against Kurtulan because she traveled with two other DTP deputies ( Aysel Tugluk and Osman Özçelik ) in northern Iraq made ​​to free abducted by eight Turkish soldiers by the PKK. The soldiers were kidnapped on a military convoy in October 2007 in Yüksekova in an attack by the PKK. The prosecutor demanded by Parliament the abolition of political immunity of the three deputies.

In the same month Kurtulan admitted that her husband Salman Kurtulan was a member of the PKK. The Turkish media reported then that Salman Kurtulan located in a warehouse of the PKK in northern Iraq. Fatma Kurtulan replied that her husband was separated from her for 13 years and they were married only on paper.

In May 2009 she stood for a parliamentary investigation of police violence against children.

After the banning of the DTP on 11 December 2009 Fatma Kurtulan the BDP joined. In the course of operations against the Kurdistan coma Civakên Kurtulan Fatma was arrested in mid- January 2012. The prosecutor demanded 2013 22.5 years in prison during the negotiations in January.