Sırrı Sakık

Sırrı Sakık (born 1 August 1957, Yörecik, Muş Province, Turkey[1]) is a Turkish-Kurdish journalist and politician, and was a member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey for the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP).

Sırrı Sakık
Sırrı Sakık
Member of Parliament
In office
1991–1994
Parliamentary groupSHP
DEP
ConstituencyMuş
Member of Parliament
In office
2007–2011
Parliamentary groupDTP
ConstituencyMuş
Member of Parliament
In office
2011–2014
Parliamentary groupBDP
ConstituencyMuş
Personal details
Born1 August 1957
Yörecik, Muş

Background

Sakık is the brother of former Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) commander Şemdin Sakık. His brother Abdulsamet Sakık, a Democracy Party (DEP) politician who was the party's chair in Gaziantep, was assassinated on 3 November 1993.[2] Sakık was involved in the tourism sector and was also a journalist for Cumhuriyet and Vatan.[3]

Career

Sakık was first elected to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey in 1991 on a ticket of the Social Democratic People's Party (SHP).[4] He was a founding member of the Democracy Party (DEP) in 1993, and was one of the DEP deputies sentenced in 1994 to 15 years in prison for links with Kurdish militants, after their parliamentary immunity was revoked.[5] He was later released, and played a role in the People's Democracy Party (HADEP), being arrested after a 1996 incident in which masked men dropped the Turkish flag at its party congress and raised the PKK flag (Sakık had walked out in protest, but later said all flags should be respected).[6][7]

He was a founding member of the Democratic Society Party (DTP) in 2005.[8] He entered parliament again in 2007, technically running as an independent,[9] but he was deputy chairman of the DTP.[10] He was re-elected in 2011 for the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) (again, technically as an independent), after the DTP was banned in 2009.[1][11]

In 2012 he displayed a bullet in parliament, which he said had been sent to him as a death threat.[12]

In the 2014 local elections he was elected as mayor of Ağrı. In March 2017 he was suspended from his office as Mayor by the Turkish Minister of the Interior.[13] A trustee was appointed instead for Ağrı Municipality.[13]

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References
  1. kimkimdir.gen.tr, Sırrı Sakık (1957 - .... )
  2. Turkish Daily News, 21 April 1998, Sirri Sakik: 'Abdulsamet Sakik did not die in an armed conflict'
  3. "Trustee Appointed to Ağrı Municipality, Sırrı Sakık Discharged". Retrieved 5 March 2020.
  4. "Muş SEÇİM SONUÇLARI". secim.haberler.com. Retrieved 5 March 2020.
  5. Turkish Daily News, 30 April 1998, Parliament reluctant to expose members to prosecution
  6. Turkish Daily News, 29 June 1996, Sakik blames media after being arrested
  7. Turkish Daily News, 28 September 1996, 11 HADEP defendants released
  8. Turkish Daily News, 15 June 2005, Charges could be filed against Democratic Society Movement
  9. "Muş SEÇİM SONUÇLARI". secim.haberler.com. Retrieved 5 March 2020.
  10. "Pro-Kurd party unveils strategy for Turkey vote". Reuters. 9 May 2007. Retrieved 5 March 2020.
  11. tbmm.gov.tr, Türkiye Büyük Millet Meclisi 23. Dönem Milletvekili
  12. Hurriyet Daily News, 12 January 2012, Bullet at rostrum
  13. "Ağrı Co-mayor Sırrı Sakık suspended". ANF News. Retrieved 28 March 2019.

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