Ebru Günay | |
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| Member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey | |
| Assumed office June 2018 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1 January 1982 Bingöl, Bingöl Province, Turkey |
| Citizenship | Turkish |
| Political party | HDP |
Ebru Günay (born 1 January 1982, Bingöl, Turkey) is a Kurdish jurist and a politician of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP). She was elected a member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey in 2018 and is currently the spokeswoman of the HDP.
Education and professional career
[edit]Ebru Güney studied law at the Dicle University, from which she graduated in 2006.[1] Following she worked at the Asrin Law Firm, and was involved in the defense of Abdullah Öcalan.[2] She also obtained an MSc in human rights law from the Bilgi University in Istanbul.[3]
Legal prosecution
[edit]Ebru Güney was arrested due to an investigation into the activities of the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) in 2009 and prosecuted during the KCK-trial[2] in which the defendants were accused of supporting a terrorist organization.[4] She was released pending trial after five years in April 2014.[1] In September 2019, the Turkish Supreme Appeals court confirmed her acquittal in the KCK main case in which initially more than 150 people were prosecuted.[4]
Political career
[edit]Ebru Güney was elected to the Turkish Parliament representing the HDP for Mardin in the parliamentary elections of June 2018[5] and is the current spokeswoman for the HDP.[6] She supports that Kurds can be educated in their native language if they wish and condemns the Turkish denial of Kurds.[7]
Spokeswoman of the HDP
[edit]Ebru Güney declared the HDPs opposition to Recep Tayyip Erdoğan denial of Selahattin Demirtaş' release from prison[8] or called for snap elections in October 2020.[9] Following the widely perceived You Tube revelations by the Turkish mafia boss Sedat Peker in June 2021, she demanded an investigation into the depopulation policy against the Kurds in the 1990s.[10]
Foreign politics
[edit]Ebru Güney and fellow HDP MP Garo Paylan toured several countries in South America in August 2019 and also met the president of the Mercosur Parliament.[11] In September 2020, she took part in the negotiations with representatives of the European Union regarding the human rights situation in Turkey.[12]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Ebrü Günay Kimdir ? - Ebrü Günay Hayatı ve Biyografisi". www.haberler.com. Retrieved 2021-01-24.
- ^ a b "Günay: March for Democracy against the Coup will start from Edirne prison and Hakkari". hdp.org.tr (in Turkish). HDP. Archived from the original on 2020-08-15. Retrieved 2021-01-24.
- ^ "24 Haziran 2018 Genel Seçim HDP Mardin Ebru Günay". Habertürk (in Turkish). Archived from the original on 2020-09-18. Retrieved 2021-01-24.
- ^ a b "KCK MAIN CASE: Supreme Court of Appeals Upholds Prison Sentences of 3 HDP MPs". Bianet. 24 September 2019. Retrieved 2021-01-28.
- ^ "Mardin Seçim Sonuçları - 24 Haziran 2018 Genel Seçimleri". www.sabah.com.tr. Retrieved 2021-01-24.
- ^ "Günay: The solution demands of the hunger strikers, are our demands". Mezopotamya Agency. 11 December 2020. Archived from the original on 2021-01-31. Retrieved 2021-01-24.
- ^ Seigneur, Margaux (2022-10-05). "[EXCLUSIVE] Growing Pressure against the HDP in Turkey: Interview with Spokeswoman Ebru Günay". The New Global Order. Retrieved 2023-02-02.
- ^ "'Demirtaş is held behind bars upon Erdoğan's instruction'". Bianet. 11 December 2020.
- ^ "HDP calls for a snap election: 'All this poverty is a harbinger of disaster'". Bianet. 23 October 2020. Archived from the original on 2020-10-31. Retrieved 2021-01-24.
- ^ "HDP: Let's pull the brick* and let the truth come to light". Bianet. 7 June 2021. Archived from the original on 2021-06-07. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
- ^ "Parlamentarios de Turquía que visitan Sudamérica se acercan al Parlamento del MERCOSUR". Mercosur Parliament (in Spanish). August 2019. Archived from the original on 2021-12-17. Retrieved 2021-12-17.
- ^ "Turkey's pro-Kurdish HDP meets with representatives from 26 EU countries". Gazete Duvar. 2020-09-23. Archived from the original on 2020-09-30. Retrieved 2021-01-24.