İshak Sağlam

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İshak Sağlam
4. Free Cause Party leader
In office
7 October 2018 – 6 June 2021
Preceded byMehmet Yavuz
Succeeded byZekeriya Yapıcıoğlu
Personal details
Born1966 (1966)
Batman
Political partyFree Cause Party
Children7
Alma materDicle University

İshak Sağlam (b. 1966; Kozluk) is a Kurdish politician and lawyer in Turkey who currently leads the Kurdish Islamist Free Cause Party from October 2018 to June 2021.[1][2]

Biography[]

Born in 1966 in the town of Kozluk in Batman Province, Sağlam graduated from Dicle University in 1992 and subsequently as a lawyer.[1] In the 2000s, he worked as a defender for members of the Movement of the Oppressed, but was also sentenced to 6 years prison for being a member of the organization.[3]

In October 2018, he was elected leader of the Free Cause Party at the third convention of the party, winning 777 votes out of 1,165.[4] In April 2019, Sağlam and a delegation from the Free Cause Party visited Kurdistan Region of Iraq and met with Kurdistan Democratic Party leader Masoud Barzani.[5]

References[]

  1. ^ a b "HÜDA PAR yeni genel başkanını seçti". Kurdistan24 (in Turkish). 7 October 2018. Retrieved 21 April 2021.
  2. ^ "Kurdistan Islamic Union congratulates Zekeriya Yapıcıoğlu for wining HÜDA PAR chairmanship". Dogru Haber. 5 June 2021. Retrieved 6 June 2021.
  3. ^ Çiçek, Nevzat (2008). Puşi ve sarık (in Turkish). Hayykitap. p. 75. ISBN 9789759059460.
  4. ^ "HÜDA PAR Genel Başkanlığına İshak Sağlam seçildi". Ilkha. 7 October 2021. Retrieved 21 April 2021.
  5. ^ "HUDA PAR President Ishak Sağlam meets Barzani". Ilkha. 30 April 2019. Retrieved 21 April 2021.


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