Ä°shak SaÄŸlam (b. 1966;
Kozluk
Kozluk (, ) is a town and seat of Kozluk District in Batman Province, Turkey. The town had a population of 27,825 in 2021. The mayor is Mehmet Veysi Işık (Justice and Development Party (Turkey), AKP).
It is divided into the neighborhoods of AÄŸ ...
) is a
Kurdish
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*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 ...
politician and lawyer in
Turkey
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who led the Kurdish
Islamist Free Cause Party
The Free Cause Party (, HÃœDA PAR) is a Kurdish Sunni Islamist political party in Turkey. It is centered in the city of Batman, Turkey.
History
Roots
Following the decision to end armed struggle in 2002, activists of the Hizbullah's Menzil ...
from October 2018 to June 2021.
He subsequently became deputy chairman and head of human rights and legal affairs of the party.
Biography
Born in 1966 in the town of
Kozluk
Kozluk (, ) is a town and seat of Kozluk District in Batman Province, Turkey. The town had a population of 27,825 in 2021. The mayor is Mehmet Veysi Işık (Justice and Development Party (Turkey), AKP).
It is divided into the neighborhoods of AÄŸ ...
in
Batman Province
Batman Province (, ; ) is a province in Turkey. It was created in May 1990 with the Law No. 3647 taking some parts from the eastern Province of Siirt and some from the southern Province of Mardin. Its area is 4,477 km2, and its population i ...
, SaÄŸlam graduated from
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 ...
in 1992 and subsequently as a lawyer.
In the 2000s, he worked as a defender for members of the
Movement of the Oppressed, but was also sentenced to 6 years prison for being a member of the organization.
In October 2018, he was elected leader of the Free Cause Party at the third convention of the party, winning 777 votes out of 1,165. In April 2019, SaÄŸlam and a delegation from the Free Cause Party visited
Kurdistan Region
Kurdistan Region (KRI) is a semi-autonomous Federal regions of Iraq, federal region of the Iraq, Republic of Iraq. It comprises four Kurds, Kurdish-majority governorates of Arabs, Arab-majority Iraq: Erbil Governorate, Sulaymaniyah Governorate ...
of
Iraq
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and met with
Kurdistan Democratic Party
The Kurdistan Democratic Party (), usually abbreviated as KDP or PDK, is the ruling Political party, party in Iraqi Kurdistan and the senior partner in the Kurdistan Regional Government. It was founded in 1946 in Mahabad in Iranian Kurdistan. ...
leader
Masoud Barzani
Masoud Barzani (; born 16 August 1946) is a Kurdish politician who has been leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) since 1979, and was President of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq from 2005 to 2017.
Early life and career
Barzani was bo ...
.
References
1966 births
Living people
Free Cause Party politicians
Turkish Kurdish politicians
People from Batman Province
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