Ali Bozan

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Ali Bozan (born 1978, in Adiyaman, Turkey) is a lawyer and politician. He is a former politician of the Democratic Society Party (DTP) and since June 2023, a member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey representing the Green Left Party (YSP).

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Early life and education

Ali Bozan was born in Adiyaman in 1978 and moved with his family to Mersin in 1984. [1] He attended primary school and high school in Mersin. [1] Following he studied law at the Dokuz Eylül University in Izmir. [1]

Professional career

Ali Bozan became a member of the Mersin Bar association [1] and his defendants include journalists of the newspaper Evrensel [2] or Aysel Tugluk, a politician of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) whom he represents in the Kobani trial. [3]

Political career

In 2006 he became the head of the Mersin branch of the DTP. [1] The same year, he was charged with terrorist propaganda for having attended a funeral of militants of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and deemed the Turkish police officers who kill children terrorists. [4] In 2006 he was arrested for two months and later released pending trial. [1] As a result of the closure case of the DTP that concluded in 2009, Bozan was banned from political office for five years. [5] Bozan eventually began to serve his prison sentence due to the terror related charge of 2006 in 2010. [4] He was released in 2012. [1]

Ali Bozan eventually appealed to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), which in 2020 ruled that there was a violation article 10 of the European convention of Human Rights regarding freedom of speech and Turkey was condemned to pay a penalty of 6'€500 to Bozan. [4] In October 2017 he was arrested for a few days together with other layers from the Mersin Bar Association. [6] He was investigated for terror related charges over the possession of a book about Kurds in Rojava by Fehim Tastekin. [7] In the parliamentary elections of May 2023, Ali Bozan was elected to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey representing the YSP for Mersin. [8]

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  2. ↑ "Turkey: Evrensel journalists Cemil Ugur and Halil Ibrahim Polat in detention". English Pen. Retrieved 2023-06-20.
  3. ↑ "Kobanê Trial: Tuğluk will be held in forensic medicine institution for 3 weeks". ANF News. Retrieved 2023-06-20.
  4. 1 2 3 "CASE OF BOZAN v. TURKEY (European Court of Human Rights) – LawEuro". 2020-10-02. Retrieved 2023-06-20.
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  7. ↑ KEDISTAN (2017-10-17). "Fehim Taştekin's book "Rojava, the time of the Kurds", banned". KEDISTAN (in French). Retrieved 2023-06-20.
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