Nihat Akdoğan
Member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey
In office
June 2015 – June 2018
ConstituencyHakkari
Personal details
Born9 March 1980
Hakkari
Political partyPeoples' Democratic Party
Alma materAnadolu University

Nihat Akdoğan (born 9 March 1980, Hakkâri, Turkey) is a Turkish politician of Kurdish descent. He was a politician of the Democratic Society Party (DTP) and a member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey for the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP).

Education

Akdoğan was born in Hakkari, where he attended high school.[1] Later he graduated from Anadolu University in Eskişehir in Public Administration[1]

Political career

He was involved in the DTP. In the parliamentary elections of June[2] and the snap election in November 2015 he was elected as an MP representing the HDP for Hakkari.[3] He was arrested on the 7 November 2016 in Hakkari,[4] and was transferred to the Silivri prison in Istanbul where he was held in solitary confinement.[5] His arrest caused some controversy as Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmuş reported his "capture" at the entrance of Hakkari,[6][7] while Akdoğan responded that he was arrested in the city centre, which was about 80 km from the location he shall have been captured.[8] He was released in April 2017.[9] For the electoral campaign towards the parliamentary elections in 2018, Akdoğan was a member of a HDP delegation which toured Iraqi Kurdistan demanding the support from the local Kurdish population.[10] In the local elections of March 2019, he was a candidate for Sultanbeyli in Istanbul, but not elected.[11]

References

  1. 1 2 "Nihat Akdoğan Kimdir? - Nihat Akdoğan Hayatı ve Biyografisi". Haberler.com (in Turkish). Retrieved 2021-12-29.
  2. ↑ "Hakkari Seçim Sonuçları - 7 Haziran 2015 Genel Seçimleri | SABAH". Sabah. Retrieved 2021-12-29.
  3. ↑ "Hakkari 2015 Kasım Resmi Seçim Sonuçları". Seçim Atlası (in Turkish). Retrieved 2021-12-29.
  4. ↑ "HDP's Hakkari MP Akdoğan Arrested". Bianet. 7 November 2021. Retrieved 29 December 2021.
  5. ↑ "The HDP's Nihat Akdoğan: The whole country is losing". Cumhuriyet. Retrieved 2021-12-29.
  6. ↑ "Turkey arrests another Kurdish lawmaker". www.kurdistan24.net. Retrieved 2021-12-29.
  7. ↑ Kutlügün, Satuk Bugra (7 November 2016). "Another HDP deputy remanded in custody in terror probe". Anadolu Ajansı. Retrieved 2021-12-29.
  8. ↑ "Arrested HDP Deputy Akdoğan Responds to Vice PM Kurtulmuş". Bianet. 10 November 2016. Retrieved 29 December 2021.
  9. ↑ "Arrested HDP MP Akdoğan Released". Bianet. 26 April 2017.
  10. ↑ "HDP appeals for support in pre-election visit to Kurdistan Region". Rudaw. 10 June 2018. Retrieved 2021-12-29.
  11. ↑ "2019 Seçimleri - 31 Mart 2019 İstanbul Sultanbeyli - Nihat Akdoğan - Yerel Seçim Belediye Sonuçları". www.haberler.com (in Turkish). Retrieved 2021-12-29.
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