Osman Baydemir is a Kurdish politician, lawyer and human rights activist born in 1971. He served as mayor of Diyarbakir from 2004 to 2014 and was later elected to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, first for the Peace and Democracy Party and then for the Peoples Democratic Party. He is widely known for a 2017 parliamentary exchange in which, asked where Kurdistan was, he touched his heart and answered that it was there.
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