Nihat Akdoğan

Nihat Akdoğan (born 9 March 1980, Hakkâri, Turkey) is a Turkish politician of Kurdish descent. He was a politician of the Democratic Society Party (DTP) and a member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey for the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP).

Nihat Akdoğan
Member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey
In office
June 2015 – June 2018
ConstituencyHakkari
Personal details
Born9 March 1980
Hakkari
Political partyPeoples' Democratic Party
Alma materAnadolu University

Education

Akdoğan was born in Hakkari, where he attended high school.[1] Later he graduated from Anadolu University in Eskişehir in Public Administration[1]

Political career

He was involved in the DTP. In the parliamentary elections of June[2] and the snap election in November 2015 he was elected as an MP representing the HDP for Hakkari.[3] He was arrested on the 7 November 2016 in Hakkari,[4] and was transferred to the Silivri prison in Istanbul where he was held in solitary confinement.[5] His arrest caused some controversy as Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmuş reported his "capture" at the entrance of Hakkari,[6][7] while Akdoğan responded that he was arrested in the city centre, which was about 80 km from the location he shall have been captured.[8] He was released in April 2017.[9] For the electoral campaign towards the parliamentary elections in 2018, Akdoğan was a member of a HDP delegation which toured Iraqi Kurdistan demanding the support from the local Kurdish population.[10] In the local elections of March 2019, he was a candidate for Sultanbeyli in Istanbul, but not elected.[11]

References
  1. "Nihat Akdoğan Kimdir? - Nihat Akdoğan Hayatı ve Biyografisi". Haberler.com (in Turkish). Retrieved 2021-12-29.
  2. "Hakkari Seçim Sonuçları - 7 Haziran 2015 Genel Seçimleri | SABAH". Sabah. Retrieved 2021-12-29.
  3. "Hakkari 2015 Kasım Resmi Seçim Sonuçları". Seçim Atlası (in Turkish). Retrieved 2021-12-29.
  4. "HDP's Hakkari MP Akdoğan Arrested". Bianet. 7 November 2021. Retrieved 29 December 2021.
  5. "The HDP's Nihat Akdoğan: The whole country is losing". Cumhuriyet. Retrieved 2021-12-29.
  6. "Turkey arrests another Kurdish lawmaker". www.kurdistan24.net. Retrieved 2021-12-29.
  7. Kutlügün, Satuk Bugra (7 November 2016). "Another HDP deputy remanded in custody in terror probe". Anadolu Ajansı. Retrieved 2021-12-29.
  8. "Arrested HDP Deputy Akdoğan Responds to Vice PM Kurtulmuş". Bianet. 10 November 2016. Retrieved 29 December 2021.
  9. "Arrested HDP MP Akdoğan Released". Bianet. 26 April 2017.
  10. "HDP appeals for support in pre-election visit to Kurdistan Region". Rudaw. 10 June 2018. Retrieved 2021-12-29.
  11. "2019 Seçimleri - 31 Mart 2019 İstanbul Sultanbeyli - Nihat Akdoğan - Yerel Seçim Belediye Sonuçları". www.haberler.com (in Turkish). Retrieved 2021-12-29.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.