Osman Baydemir
Turkish attorney and statesperson · Turkey · On the map · Politicians · Born 1971 · age 55
Osman Baydemir is a Kurdish politician, lawyer and human rights activist. He was the mayor of his home town of Diyarbakır from 2004 to 2014. He was a member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey for the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) and also the Peoples Democratic Party (HDP).
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“He is widely known for his remark in the Turkish Parliament in 2017, when - after being asked where ‘Kurdistan’ was - he touched his heart and replied, ‘Here is the Kurdistan.’