Dersim Dağ
Dersim Dağ | |
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Assembly Member for Diyarbakır | |
Assumed office June 2018 | |
Personal details | |
Born | 2 February 1996 Bismil |
Citizenship | Turkish |
Nationality | Kurdish |
Education | Mardin Artuklu University |
Dersim Dağ (born 2 February 1996, Bismil, Turkey[1]) is a politician of the Peoples Democratic Party (HDP) and a member of the Turkish Parliament. With 22 years of age when elected, she was one of the youngest parliamentarians.
Early life and education[]
Dağ was born into a Kurdish family in Bismil and has 12 siblings.[2] Her father was a farmer.[2] In the late 1990s, her family was forced to move Istanbul, where she was grew up.[2] She studies Kurdish language at the Artuklu University in Mardin.[2]
Political career[]
As to her own account, she was born into a political family and hence became interested in politics at a young age.[2] In the parliamentary elections of June 2018, she was elected a Member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, representing the HDP for Diyarbakır.[3] With both being 22 years of age, Dağ and Rümeysa Kadak of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) were the youngest MPs elected.[4] In parliament, she is a member of the education, youth and culture commission.[5]
Political views[]
She defends press freedom,[6] demands better housing conditions for students at the university,[7] is a supporter of education in the Kurdish language and laments the closure of the Kurdish language educational centers set up by the Municipalities run by the fraternal party of the HDP,[8] the Democratic Regions Party (DBP). On 3 March 2019 she announced she would participate in a hunger strike begun by her fellow HDP MP Leyla Güven in protest of the detention conditions of the former leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) Abdullah Öcalan.[9] The same day the HDP office in Diyarbakır was raided by Turkish authorities and several hunger-strikers were detained.[10][11] In May Dag ended her hunger strike as their demands were met and Öcalan was able to receive a visit.[12]
Personal life[]
Her brother Mazlum Dag has been sentenced to death for murdering a Turkish diplomat in, Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan.[13]
References[]
- ^ Kamer, Hatice (2018-06-30). "Dersim Dağ: Gençlerin ve kadınların sözcüsü olacağım". BBC (in Turkish). Archived from the original on 2022-01-18. Retrieved 2022-01-17.
- ^ a b c d e Değirmenci, Bircan (12 June 2018). "HDP's 22-Year-Old MP Candidate Dersim Dağ On Way to Parliament". Bianet. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Diyarbakır Seçim Sonuçları - 24 Haziran 2018 Genel Seçimleri". Sabah. Archived from the original on 2019-01-09. Retrieved 2022-01-18.
- ^ Sevinç, Özgenur (2018-06-29). "New Parliament welcomes more women in politics to improve Turkey's governance". Daily Sabah. Archived from the original on 2018-06-29. Retrieved 2022-01-18.
- ^ "Dersim Dağ kimdir? - Yeni Akit". Yeni Akit (in Turkish). Archived from the original on 2022-01-18. Retrieved 2022-01-18.
- ^ "Dersim Dağ: Money spent by Turkey's government 'on war pushes people to the edge'". Medya News. 2021-05-17. Retrieved 2022-01-18.
- ^ "Opposition's Parliamentary inquiry into housing problem rejected by AKP, MHP". Bianet. 6 October 2021. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Faidhi Dri, Karwan (22 July 2020). "Silencing of the Kurdish language in modern Turkey: who is to blame?". Rudaw. Archived from the original on 2020-07-25. Retrieved 2022-01-17.
- ^ "Pro-Kurdish HDP lawmaker joins hunger strike for Öcalan". Ahval. 3 March 2019. Archived from the original on 2019-05-20.
- ^ "Turkish police raid HDP office, arrest 7 hunger strikers". Rudaw. Archived from the original on 2019-03-13. Retrieved 2022-01-17.
- ^ "Protesters Join Kurdish Lawmaker on Hunger Strike". VOA. 5 March 2019. Archived from the original on 2019-03-06. Retrieved 2022-01-17.
- ^ "Kurdish hunger strike ends in victory". Peoples Dispatch. 2019-05-29. Retrieved 2022-01-18.
- ^ Faidhi Dri, Karwan (23 September 2020). "Erbil court releases two convicted of being accessories to murder of Turkish official: lawyer". Rudaw. Archived from the original on 2020-10-05. Retrieved 2022-01-18.
- 21st-century Kurdish women politicians
- 1996 births
- Living people
- People from Diyarbakır Province
- Peoples' Democratic Party (Turkey) politicians
- Members of the 27th Parliament of Turkey
- Hunger strikers
- 21st-century Turkish women politicians
- Deputies of Diyarbakır