Aygül Berivan Aslan

Aygül Berivan Aslan (born October 16, 1981 in Kulu, Turkey)^[1] is an Kurdish-Austrian politician and a member of the Austrian Green Party. She was a member of the National Council from 2013 to 2017.^[1]

In 2020, a man named Feyyaz Öztürk claimed that Turkish intelligence officials had blackmailed him and ordered him to assassinate Aslan.^[2]^[3]

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Parliament of Austria biography

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^ ^a ^b "Aygül Berivan Aslan" (in German). Austrian Parliament. June 30, 2016.
^ Allen, Ian (January 13, 2021). "Austria expels alleged assassin accused of working for Turkish government". IntelNews. British newspaper The Telegraph claimed that Öztürk had been tasked by Ankara to “ensure [Aslan] was hurt or died”, so that “other politicians get the message”. Öztürk also claimed that Turkish intelligence officials had blackmailed him in order to force him to carry out Alsan’s assassination.
^ Bennhold, Katrin; Gall, Carlotta (October 13, 2020). "Turkish Defector Says He Was Ordered to Kill Politician in Austria". The New York Times. Archived from the original on October 15, 2020. When Mr. Ozturk turned himself in on Sept. 15, he told the police that he was retired from a long career at the Turkish intelligence agency, known as the M.I.T., but had recently been tasked to carry out an attack on Aygul Berivan Aslan, a former Green Party lawmaker of Kurdish descent and a vocal Erdogan critic.

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[bio-1] "Aygül Berivan Aslan" (in German). Austrian Parliament. June 30, 2016.

[2] Allen, Ian (January 13, 2021). "Austria expels alleged assassin accused of working for Turkish government". IntelNews. British newspaper The Telegraph claimed that Öztürk had been tasked by Ankara to “ensure [Aslan] was hurt or died”, so that “other politicians get the message”. Öztürk also claimed that Turkish intelligence officials had blackmailed him in order to force him to carry out Alsan’s assassination.

[3] Bennhold, Katrin; Gall, Carlotta (October 13, 2020). "Turkish Defector Says He Was Ordered to Kill Politician in Austria". The New York Times. Archived from the original on October 15, 2020. When Mr. Ozturk turned himself in on Sept. 15, he told the police that he was retired from a long career at the Turkish intelligence agency, known as the M.I.T., but had recently been tasked to carry out an attack on Aygul Berivan Aslan, a former Green Party lawmaker of Kurdish descent and a vocal Erdogan critic.

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