İbrahim Ayhan | |
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Member of the Grand National Assembly | |
In office January 2014 – February 2018 | |
Constituency | Şanlıurfa ( 2011, June 2015, Nov 2015) |
Personal details | |
Born | Siverek, Turkey | 10 February 1968
Died | 20 September 2018 Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan, Iraq | (aged 50)
Political party |
Peace and Democracy Party (2008–2014) Peoples' Democratic Party (2014–2018) |
Other political affiliations | Group of Communities in Kurdistan (KCK) |
Alma mater | Yüzüncü Yıl University |
İbrahim Ayhan (10 February 1968 – 20 September 2018) was a Turkish politician of Kurdish origin and a former Member of Parliament for Şanlıurfa.
Born in Siverek, Şanlıurfa, he graduated from the Yüzüncü Yıl University in Van in 1992. [1] After he worked as a teacher. From 1997 to 2007, he was an executive and chairperson of the Education and Science Workers' Union in Urfa. [1] He was married with two children. [2]
On 5 October 2010, he was arrested as part of an investigation into the Kurdish confederalist Group of Communities in Kurdistan (KCK) organisation. [3] After he became an independent candidate and was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Sanliurfa in the general elections of 2011. [4] A court in Diyarbakır refused to release several elected independent MPs, as was also Ayhan. [5] He appealed to the Constitutional Court, claiming that the legally allowed detention time had been exceeded and his right to stand in elections had been violated. [6] He was released alongside the imprisoned MP Gülser Yıldırım on 3 January 2014, enabling them to take the oath. [7] On 28 August 2014, he joined the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) parliamentary caucus along with all other BDP MPs. He was re-elected in the general elections of June [8] and November 2015. [9] In February 2018 he was dismissed as Member of Parliament for having shown solidarity with a killed fighter from the Peoples' Protection Units (YPG). [10] He was sentenced to 1 year and 3 months imprisonment for sharing a photograph a fighter killed in Syrian Kurdistan, which was interpreted as terror propaganda. [1] On the 20 September 2018 Ayhan died due to a heart attack he suffered in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan. [3]
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