Aysel TuÄŸluk
Aysel Tugluk ( born July 17, 1965 in the province of Elazig ) is a Kurdish politician in Turkey.
Life
Tugluk is a graduate of the Law Faculty of İstanbul Üniversitesi and worked as a lawyer. Tugluk was a member and founder of several NGOs such as the Toplumsal Hukuk Araştırmaları Vakfi, İnsan Haklari Derneği ( Human Rights Association ) and Yurtsever Kadınlar Derneği (Association of Patriotic Women ). As a lawyer, she represented Abdullah Ocalan. Her brother Alaattin Tugluk is friends with Ocalan. From 2005 she was a member of the party Demokratik Partisi Toplum and for a long time together with Ahmet Turk party chairman. At the party on October 9, 2007, she was voted out because of their passive nature and willingness to compromise.
For the general elections in Turkey in 2007 she stood as an independent candidate for the province of Diyarbakir. The DTP was able to circumvent the 10% electoral threshold and sending 20 MPs to parliament.
The Turkish prosecutor's office opened on 9 November 2007, a case against Tugluk because they traveled to northern Iraq with two other DTP deputies ( Fatma Kurtulan and Osman Özçelik ) to eight abducted Turkish soldiers freizubekommen of 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.
On 11 December 2009 the DTP was closed by the Turkish Constitutional Court. Tugluk was relieved of its mandate and topped with a five-year ban on political activity. However, after the constitutional amendment to the referendum in 2010, she returned to politics and was a candidate in the parliamentary elections on 12 June 2011 for the province of Van. Tugluk won the election and returned to Parliament.
In August 2011 Tugluk was sentenced by a Turkish court due to propaganda for the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party PKK to a two - year prison sentence. Background was held by her speech in March 2010. According to the judge, these were to " terrorist propaganda ". Tugluk described in an interview the other hand, their speech as a call for peace. You 've been in the speech only mentioned Öcalan to accept as an interlocutor in the Kurdish issue.