Emine Ãœlker Tarhan

Emine Ülker Tarhan ( born November 29, 1963 in Tarsus ) is a Turkish lawyer and Member of Parliament.

Tarhan was until mid-March 2011 a judge in the 4th Criminal Division of the Court of Cassation in Ankara and President of her 2006 co-founded the Professional Association of Judges and Prosecutors YARSAV. It is among the critics of the Turkish constitutional referendum of 2010, and is committed to the equality of women in working life. In 2011, Tarhan resigned from her position as a judge and the chair of the Professional Association YARSAV to stand as MP for the opposition CHP. She had " It was no longer about right." To her resignation reinforces the arrest of Ahmet Şık in March 2011 in the parliamentary elections in June 2011, she joined the main opposition party, : Opposite the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, she took the remark position. the Republican people's Party Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi at ( CHP).

Tarhan is married and has two children.

Positions

At a meeting of the Office for Integration on April 1, 2011 in Frankfurt am Main Tarhan gave a speech on violations of freedom of expression and press freedom in Turkey. Of the 119 298 individual complaints of violations of the European Convention on Human Rights, available to the competent European Court of Justice, had been raised by 33 568 citizens and non-governmental organizations from Turkey.

Tarhan criticized the decline in the proportion of women in the Turkish judiciary to almost 0 % in the election of the Supreme Court 2011. The percentage of Alevis in the Turkish jurisdiction would be at zero. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan would be build among other things, in Silivri, the capital of the eponymous district of the province of İstanbul, special courts and high security areas for thousands of people.

She accuses Erdoğan ago " to promote violence against women in Turkey ". In 2011, Tarhan criticized the domestic Turkish law enforcement at a public recognition of the Armenian genocide under Article 301 ( "insulting the Turkish nation ") of the Turkish Penal Code and called for the abolition of law enforcement.