Haluk Pekşen (11 September 1961 – 16 September 2022) was a Turkish lawyer, businessman and politician from the
Republican People's Party
The Republican People's Party (RPP; , CHP ) is a Kemalism, Kemalist and Social democracy, social democratic political party in Turkey. It is the oldest List of political parties in Turkey, political party in Turkey, founded by Mustafa Kemal ...
(CHP) who served as the
Member of Parliament for
Trabzon
Trabzon, historically known as Trebizond, is a city on the Black Sea coast of northeastern Turkey and the capital of Trabzon Province. The city was founded in 756 BC as "Trapezous" by colonists from Miletus. It was added into the Achaemenid E ...
since
7 June 2015.
Pekşen was lawyer at
"Sledgehammer" plot trials and lawsuit for reestablishing of the
Confederation of Progressive Trade Unions of Turkey
The Confederation of Revolutionary Trade Unions of Turkey ( Turkish: ''Türkiye Devrimci İşçi Sendikaları Konfederasyonu'', DİSK) is one of the four major national trade union centres in Turkey. It was founded in 1967 as a breakaway union fr ...
. On September 16, 2022, after a fishbone got stuck in his esophagus, which caused a tear (rupture) in his esophagus, which caused an infection. He was buried in Cebeci Asri Cemetery after the funeral ceremony held in Ankara Kocatepe Mosque on September 18.
See also
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25th Parliament of Turkey
This is a list of members of Parliament (MPs) elected to the Grand National Assembly for the 25th Parliament of the Republic of Turkey at the June 2015 general election, which was held on 7 June 2015.
Electoral districts are ordered in alphabet ...
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26th Parliament of Turkey
The 26th Parliament of the Turkish Republic was elected in a snap general election held on 1 November 2015 to the Grand National Assembly. It succeeded the short-lived 25th Parliament of Turkey later in November and lasted until July 2018. The ...
References
External links
MP profile on the Grand National Assembly website
1961 births
2022 deaths
20th-century Turkish lawyers
21st-century Turkish lawyers
Contemporary Republican People's Party (Turkey) politicians
Deputies of Trabzon
Members of the 25th Parliament of Turkey
Members of the 26th Parliament of Turkey
Turkish businesspeople
Politicians from Trabzon
Istanbul University Faculty of Law alumni
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