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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RoleKurdish politician, lawyer and human rights activist 1 Nationality / Jurisdiction Classification
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- Also in Geography Atlas: Turkey, nationality there.
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1. Osman Baydemir (Wikipedia)
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He was the mayor of his home town of Diyarbak?r from 2004 to 2014.
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Osman Baydemir is a Kurdish politician, lawyer and human rights activist born in 1971.
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Osman Baydemir is a Kurdish politician, lawyer and human rights activist.
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Osman Baydemir then filed an appeal before the Constitutional Court which argued it had no authority of parliamentarian penalties Following, Baydemir appealed to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) over his temporary expulsion, who in June 2023, condemned Turkey to pay Baydemir a penalty of almost 17'000 Euros.
View the Source 2. Wikidata: Osman Baydemir
Wikidata Q735674, P569 date of birth claim (year)
P569 (date of birth): 1971
Wikidata Q735674, P569 date of birth claim (full date)
P569 (date of birth): 1971-01-01
Wikidata Q735674, P19 place of birth claim
P19 (place of birth): Diyarbakır
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