Ahmet Türk

Who is Ahmet Türk?

Ahmet Türk is a Kurdish nationalist politician in Turkey. He was the chairman of the former pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party in Turkey and was a member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. On December 11, 2009, the Constitutional Court of Turkey voted to ban the DTP, accusing it of connection with PKK. Türk was expelled from the Grand National Assembly, and 36 other party members were banned from joining any political party for five years.

Ahmet Turk lost his father when he was ten years old. His older brother was deputy of the Justice Party until he was murdered. Ahmet Türk, at the age of 31, then took over the leadership of the Kanco clan.

Ahmet Turk’s father Haci Sinan was a lumberjack in the service of his late father Hüyesin Kanco, a commander of the Hamidieh. With the adoption of the surname law in Turkey, the family took the surname of Türk. Ahmet Türk is the child of the second wife of Haci Sinan.