Selahattin Demirtaş

Politician

1973 –

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Who is Selahattin Demirtaş?

Selahattin Demirtaş is a Zaza-speaking Kurdish politician in Turkey.

Selahattin Demirtaş was born in Diyarbakır, Turkey in 1973 where he completed both his primary and secondary education. Upon graduation he took the university entrance exam and started his college education in 9 Eylül University in the department of Maritime Commerce and Management where he would face political problems that would force him to leave school without finishing his degree. He returned to Diyarbakır and retook the university entrance exam, after which he enrolled at Ankara University Law Faculty. After college, Demirtaş worked as a freelance lawyer for a time before becoming a member of the executive committee of the Diyarbakır Branch of the Human Rights Association. The IHD Chair at the time was Osman Baydemir who was elected as the mayor of Diyarbakır in the following local election and Demirtaş replaced him as the chair of the IHD Diyarbakır. During his term as chair, the association focused heavily on the increasing unsolved political murders in Turkey. Demirtaş is among the founding members of the Turkish Human Rights Association and the Diyarbakır post of Amnesty International.

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Born
Apr 10, 1973
Palu District
Siblings
Nationality
  • Turkey
Education
  • Ankara University, Law School

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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