Ebru Günay
Ebru Günay | |
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Member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey | |
Assumed office June 2018 | |
Personal details | |
Born | 1 January 1982 Bingöl |
Citizenship | Turkish |
Nationality | Kurdish |
Political party | HDP |
Ebru Günay (born 1 January 1982, Bingöl, Turkey) is a jurist and a politician of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP). She was elected a member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey in 2018 and is currently the spokeswoman of the HDP.
Education and professional career[]
She studied law at the Dicle University, from which she graduated in 2006.[1] Following she worked at the , and was involved in the defense of Abdullah Öcalan.[2] She also obtained an MSc in human rights law from the Bilgi University in Istanbul.[3]
Legal prosecution[]
She was arrested due to an investigation into the activities of the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) in 2009 and prosecuted during the KCK-trial[2] in which the defendants were accused of supporting terrorist organization.[4] She was released pending trial after five years in April 2014.[1] In September 2019, the Turkish Supreme Appeals court confirmed her acquittal in the KCK main case in which initially more than 150 people were prosecuted.[4]
Political career[]
She was elected to the Turkish Parliament representing the HDP for Mardin in the parliamentary elections of June 2018[5] and is the current spokeswoman for the HDP.[6]
Spokeswoman of the HDP[]
She declared the HDPs opposition to Recep Tayyip Erdoğan denial of Selahattin Demirtaş' release from prison[7] or called for snap elections in October 2020.[8] Following the widely perceived by the Turkish mafia boss Sedat Peker in June 2021, she demanded an investigation into the depopulation policy against the Kurds in the 1990s.[9]
Foreign politics[]
She and fellow HDP MP Garo Paylan toured several countries in South America in August 2019 and also met the president of the Mercosur Parliament.[10] In September 2020 she took part in the negotiations with representatives of the European Union regarding the human rights situation in Turkey.[11]
References[]
- ^ a b "Ebrü Günay Kimdir ? - Ebrü Günay Hayatı ve Biyografisi". www.haberler.com. Retrieved 2021-01-24.
- ^ a b "Günay: March for Democracy against the Coup will start from Edirne prison and Hakkari". hdp.org.tr (in Turkish). HDP. Retrieved 2021-01-24.
- ^ "24 Haziran 2018 Genel Seçim HDP Mardin Ebru Günay". Habertürk (in Turkish). Retrieved 2021-01-24.
- ^ a b "KCK MAIN CASE: Supreme Court of Appeals Upholds Prison Sentences of 3 HDP MPs". Bianet. 24 September 2019. Retrieved 2021-01-28.
- ^ "Mardin Seçim Sonuçları - 24 Haziran 2018 Genel Seçimleri". www.sabah.com.tr. Retrieved 2021-01-24.
- ^ "Günay: The solution demands of the hunger strikers, are our demands". Mezopotamya Agency. 11 December 2020. Retrieved 2021-01-24.
- ^ "'Demirtaş is held behind bars upon Erdoğan's instruction'". Bianet. 11 December 2020.
- ^ "HDP calls for a snap election: 'All this poverty is a harbinger of disaster'". Bianet. 23 October 2020. Retrieved 2021-01-24.
- ^ "HDP: Let's pull the brick* and let the truth come to light". Bianet. 7 June 2021. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
- ^ "Parlamentarios de Turquía que visitan Sudamérica se acercan al Parlamento del MERCOSUR". Mercosur Parliament (in Spanish). August 2019. Retrieved 2021-12-17.
- ^ "Turkey's pro-Kurdish HDP meets with representatives from 26 EU countries". Gazete Duvar. 2020-09-23. Retrieved 2021-01-24.
- 1982 births
- Living people
- Peoples' Democratic Party (Turkey) politicians
- Turkish prisoners and detainees
- Dicle University alumni
- Kurdish jurists
- 21st-century Kurdish women politicians