Filiz Kerestecioğlu

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Filiz Kerestecioğlu
MP
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Member of the Grand National Assembly
Assumed office
7 June 2015
Constituencyİstanbul (II) (June 2015, Nov 2015)
Ankara (I) (2018)
Personal details
Born (1961-01-31) 31 January 1961 (age 60)
Gölcük, Turkey
Political partyPeoples' Democratic Party (HDP)
Alma materAnkara University

Filiz Kerestecioğlu Demir (born 31 January 1961) is a Turkish politician from the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) who currently serves as a Member of Parliament since the June 2015 general election.

Early life and career[]

Filiz Kerestecioğlu was born on 31 January 1961 in Gölcük and graduated from Ankara University Faculty of Law in 1984. In 1987, she started working as a freelance lawyer.[1] Between 1991 and 1992, she worked as a representative for the Nokta Magazine in Switzerland, also working as a Turkish and English language teacher there. In 1995, she participated in the production of a documentary called 'Women Exist' and wrote the music and lyrics for the song of the same name.[2] She was a founding member of the Women's Rights Implementation Centre at the , and worked as the secretary for the Bar Association Foreign Relations Commission. Between 2004 and 2012, she worked as an editor for the Contemporary Law Magazine (Güncel Hukuk).[3]

Political career[]

As a candidate for the Peoples' Democratic Party, Kerestecioğlu was elected as a Member of Parliament for İstanbul's second electoral district in the June 2015 general election.[4] She was re-elected in the November 2015 snap general election[5] despite her party's fall in the vote share. In

Kerestecioğlu is a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) and currently serves as the third vice president of the PACE Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination.[6]

On 18 April 2018, following President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's call for a snap general election, Kerestecioğlu was rumoured to be a potential HDP candidate for the presidential election. She denied a potential presidential run on the same day.[7] But she was re-elected as an MP in the snap elections in June 2018.[8] On the 17 March 2021, the State Prosecutor for the Court of Cassation in Turkey Bekir Şahin filed a lawsuit before the Constitutional Court, demanding for Kerestecioğlu and 686 other politicians of the HDP a five-year ban for a political participation.[9] The lawsuit was filed jointly with a request for the HDP to be shut down due to the parties alleged organizational ties with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).[10][9]

References[]

  1. ^ "Filiz Kerestecioğlu Aslen Nereli? - Detaylı Biyografi".
  2. ^ "Filiz Kerestecioğlu kimdir?".
  3. ^ Baydur, Tasarım: Emre. "TÜRKİYE BÜYÜK MİLLET MECLİSİ". www.tbmm.gov.tr.
  4. ^ "Filiz Kerestecioğlu kimdir?". www.biyografi.info.
  5. ^ Şafak, Yeni (2020-08-03). "İstanbul Seçim Sonuçları 2015 - Genel Seçim Kasım 2015". Yeni Şafak (in Turkish). Retrieved 2020-03-08.
  6. ^ "PACE Member File". www.assembly.coe.int.
  7. ^ "Filiz Kerestecioğlu'ndan 'HDP'nin cumhurbaşkanı adayı olduğu' iddiasına yanıt".
  8. ^ Şafak, Yeni (2020-08-03). "Ankara Seçim Sonuçları - Genel Seçim 2018 Ankara Sonucu". Yeni Şafak (in Turkish). Retrieved 2020-03-08.
  9. ^ a b "HDP indictment seeks political ban for 687 members, including Demirtaş, Buldan and Sancar". Bianet. Retrieved 2021-03-19.
  10. ^ "Turkish prosecutor seeks political ban on 687 pro-Kurdish politicians". www.duvarenglish.com. Gazete Duvar. 2021-03-18. Retrieved 2021-03-19.
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