Salihe Aydeniz | |
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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 | |
Born | 1973 Ergani,Diyarbakır |
Political party | Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (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]
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]
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.
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]
She is married and has two children. [3]
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