Orhan Doğan
Orhan Doğan | |
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Member of the Grand National Assembly | |
In office 14 November 1991 – 17 March 1994 | |
Constituency | Şırnak (1991) |
Personal details | |
Born | 25 July 1955 Mardin |
Died | 29 June 2007 Doğubayazıt |
Citizenship | Turkey |
Orhan Doğan (25 July 1955, Mardin, Turkey – 29 June 2007, Doğubeyazit) was a Kurdish human rights lawyer and politician of the Democratic Society Party.[1]
Education and professional career
In 1974 he went to the University of Ankara to study law[1] and began working as an accountant at the Ankara Altındağ Primary Education Directorate. After graduating he took up an internship with Ismail Mungan. father of Murathan Mungan. Later he settled to Cizre where he worked as a lawyer and during his term as the head of the Turkish Human Rights Association in the Sirnak province he was a defender of Kurdish rights.[1] As a lawyer, he successfully represented the ones who were forced to eat feces by the Turkish authorities in Yeşilyurt before the European Court of Human Rights.[2]
Political career
He contributed to the Kurdish Report of the Social Democrat Populist Party (SHP) and later resigned from the party in 1989 in protest against the dismissal of seven Kurdish deputies for attending a Kurdish Identity and Human Rights Conference in Paris.[1]
In 1991 he was elected to the
Upon his release in 2004 he helped to found the Democratic Society Party (DTP).[1]
Death
He died in 2007 following a heart attack he suffered, while giving a speech at a festival in
Personal life
Orhan Doğan was the father of five children.[10] One is the journalist and politician Aysegul Dogan.[10]
References
- ^ Heinrich Böll Stiftung. pp. 207–208. Archived from the original(PDF) on 15 November 2019. Retrieved 12 December 2019.
- ^ ISSN 2195-1349. Retrieved 2022-10-13.
- ^ "Şırnak 1991 Genel Seçimi Sonuçları". Yeni Şafak. Retrieved 12 December 2019.
- ^ "Turkey parliament backs immunity bill - Türkiye News". Hürriyet Daily News. Retrieved 2022-10-13.
- ^ "DGM Sentences Zana to 15 Years Imprisonment". Bianet. Retrieved 23 September 2019.
- ^ "LEYLA ZANA". House of Commons. 2001-05-03. Retrieved 2011-10-14.
- ^ "Turkey: Prolonged imprisonment of Leyla Zana and others allows injustice to continue". www.amnesty.org.uk. Retrieved 2022-10-23.
- ^ "Amnesty Protests Zanas Verdict". Bianet. 2004.
- ^ "Texts adopted - Thursday, 22 April 2004 - Trial against Leyla Zana and others in Ankara - P5_TA(2004)0377". www.europarl.europa.eu. Retrieved 2019-01-01.
- ^ a b Çalışlar, Oral (2020-12-22). "Orhan Doğan'ın kızı Ayşegül". Serbestiyet (in Turkish). Retrieved 2023-05-16.