Feridun Celik is a Kurdish Turkish lawyer and politician, born in 1966 in Kulp, Diyarbakir province. A graduate of the law faculty of Dicle University in 1987, he worked as a lawyer, including representing Abdullah Ocalan, before serving as Mayor of Diyarbakir from 1999 to 2004 for the Kurdish political parties HADEP and DEHAP. As mayor he was noted for securing legal permission for the Kurdish Newroz festival, and in the years that followed he was arrested more than once in connection with his political activity, including in 2000 and again in 2017. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Feridun Çelik is a Kurdish-Turkish a former Mayor of Diyarbakır and politician of the People's Democracy Party (HADEP) and Democratic People's Party (DEHAP).
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Feridun Celik is a Kurdish Turkish lawyer and politician, born in 1966 in Kulp, Diyarbakir province.
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occupation/position claim resolves to: Politician
Wikidata Q6949708, P569 date of birth claim (year)
P569 (date of birth): 1966
Wikidata Q6949708, P19 place of birth claim
P19 (place of birth): Kulp
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