İbrahim Halil Baran (

Kurmanji Kurmanji (, ), also termed Northern Kurdish, is the northernmost of the Kurdish languages, spoken predominantly in southeast Turkey, northwest and northeast Iran, northern Iraq, northern Syria and the Caucasus and Khorasan regions. It is the ...

: Îbrahîm Xelîl Baran; born 1981) is a

Kurdish Kurdish may refer to: *Kurds or Kurdish people *Kurdish language ** Northern Kurdish (Kurmanji) **Central Kurdish (Sorani) **Southern Kurdish ** Laki Kurdish *Kurdish alphabets *Kurdistan, the land of the Kurdish people which includes: **Southern ...

poet, politician, writer and designer. He is founder and first party chairman for Partiya Kurdistani (PAKURD). Baran studied at

Dicle University Dicle University (, ) is a public university located in Diyarbakır, Turkey, and one of the largest higher education institution. Vocational schools are located in Ergani, Çermik, Çüngüş, Bismil, and Silvan, Turkey, Silvan History Dicle Uni ...

before receiving a master's degree at

Bilkent University Bilkent University () is a private non-profit research university located in Ankara, Turkey. It was founded by İhsan Doğramacı, the first president of the Council of Higher Education and the head of the prominent Doğramacı family, with th ...

. He was then the editor of Yom Sanat magazine. In 2015, he wrote an article for

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. Baran was placed in detention for 13 days by Turkish Authorities for disseminating the propaganda of a terrorist organization and insulting President

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in 2017. He was detained on January 11 and arrested on January 23, before being released on April 11 under due process. Baran claimed that he had been heavily tortured, and that 16 other people related to PAKURD (including his brother) were also in prison. The court ruled in his favour, ordering the government to pay him TL 20,000 ($2,790) in damages. In 2020, Baran republished a collection of poems, in a volume known as Sular Divanı, previously released in 2005. His previous works include ''Esmer Tenli Irmak Düşleri'' (2002) In 2021, Baran was sentenced to 3 years and six months by a court in

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for "incitement against the Turkish nation, the Republic of Turkey, institutions and state body", concerning about 30 tweets and articles by Baran. Baran was not informed, and only found out about the sentence in 2022. He has not returned to Turkey since the sentence was announced.

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Kurdish poets Living people 1981 births Dicle University alumni Bilkent University alumni Date of birth missing (living people) {{poet-stub