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Salihe Aydeniz
MP
Member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey
Assumed office
24 June 2018
Constituency Diyarbakır ( 2018)
Mardin ( 2023)
Co-Chair of the Democratic Regions Party
Assumed office
December 2019
Preceded by Sebahat Tuncel
Personal details
Born1973
Ergani, Diyarbakır
Political party Party of Greens and the Left Future ( DBP)
Other political
affiliations		 HDP

Salihe Aydeniz (born 1973, Ergani, Turkey [1]) is a Kurdish politician of the Democratic Regions Party (DBP) and a current member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. Since November 2019, she is the co-chair of the DBP. [2]

Education and early life

Aydeniz received her primary education in Ergani, Diyarbakır and graduated as a nurse from the health institute in Diyarbakır, [3] going on to work as a nurse in Dargeçit, Mardin. [1] She has presided over the Trade Union of Public Employees in Health and Social Services and been a member of the Democratic Society Congress (DTK). [4]

Political career

Aydeniz was elected to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey representing the HDP for Diyarbakır in the Parliamentary Election in June 2018. [5] On the 30 November 2019, she assumed as a Co-Chair of HDPs sister-party, the DBP, following which she left the HDP. [2] With her membership of the DBP, the party became the tenth party represented in the Turkish parliament. [2] As an MP she is a proponent of a political solution to the Kurdish-Turkish conflict and has said that the Turkish opposition should take a more constructive approach to Kurdish demands in relation to Kurdish language and culture. [6] She rarely goes to Ankara, saying that little can be achieved there: the questions on the human rights situation in Turkish Kurdistan that are submitted to parliament seldom meet with an answer. [7]

In the 2023 Turkish parliamentary election she was elected in Mardin.

Legal prosecution

After a march in support of Abdullah Öcalan, the leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in Kadıköy, [8] she punched a police officer while the officer was only standing. [9] After that she was accused of having pushed a police officer and taking part in a march without permission following which a motion was prepared to end her legislative immunity. [10]

Personal life

She is married and has two children. [3]

References

  1. ^ a b "Salihe Aydeniz". Grand National Assembly of Turkey. Retrieved 2021-06-15.
  2. ^ a b c "HDP's sister party DBP becomes 10th party in Turkish parliament". Gazete Duvar. 2019-12-20. Retrieved 2021-06-15.
  3. ^ a b "Saliha Aydeniz kimdir? - Yeni Akit". Yeni Akit (in Turkish). Retrieved 2021-06-15.
  4. ^ Söylemez, Ayça (25 July 2017). "Doctors Arrested in Diyarbakır; Operations, Medical Control of Patients Cancelled". Bianet.
  5. ^ "DİYARBAKIR İli Cumhurbaşkanı Seçimi ve Milletvekili Seçimi Sonuçları". Haberler.com (in Turkish). June 2018. Retrieved 2021-06-15.
  6. ^ Şah Oruç, Mehmet (17 April 2021). "Aydeniz: Opposition that doesn't approach the Kurdish problem with courage can not come to power". Mezapotamya Ajansi. Retrieved 2021-06-15.
  7. ^ Molina, Fabian (2018-10-19). "Keine Melonen-Feste mehr". P.S. (in German). Retrieved 2021-06-15.
  8. ^ "DBP'li milletvekili Salihe Aydeniz'in dokunulmazlığının kaldırılmasına ilişkin fezleke Karma Komisyon'da". BBC News Türkçe (in Turkish). Retrieved 2022-06-24.
  9. ^ Polise yumruk atan DBP'li Salihe Aydeniz'e soruşturma..., retrieved 2022-06-26
  10. ^ "Summary of proceedings against MP Aydeniz". Bianet. 24 June 2022.
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