Salihe Aydeniz
MP
Member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey
Assumed office
June 2018
ConstituencyDiyarbakır (2018)
Mardin (2023)
Co-Chair of the Democratic Regions Party
Assumed office
December 2019
Preceded bySebahat Tuncel
Personal details
Born1973
Ergani, Diyarbakır
Political partyParty of Greens and the Left Future (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]

Education and early life

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]

Political career

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.

Legal prosecution

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]

Personal life

She is married and has two children.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b "Salihe Aydeniz". Grand National Assembly of Turkey. Retrieved 2021-06-15.
  2. ^ a b c "HDP's sister party DBP becomes 10th party in Turkish parliament". Gazete Duvar. 2019-12-20. Retrieved 2021-06-15.
  3. ^ a b "Saliha Aydeniz kimdir? - Yeni Akit". Yeni Akit (in Turkish). Retrieved 2021-06-15.
  4. ^ Söylemez, Ayça (25 July 2017). "Doctors Arrested in Diyarbakır; Operations, Medical Control of Patients Cancelled". Bianet.
  5. ^ "DİYARBAKIR İli Cumhurbaşkanı Seçimi ve Milletvekili Seçimi Sonuçları". Haberler.com (in Turkish). June 2018. Retrieved 2021-06-15.
  6. ^ Şah Oruç, Mehmet (17 April 2021). "Aydeniz: Opposition that doesn't approach the Kurdish problem with courage can not come to power". Mezapotamya Ajansi. Retrieved 2021-06-15.
  7. ^ Molina, Fabian (2018-10-19). "Keine Melonen-Feste mehr". P.S. (in German). Retrieved 2021-06-15.
  8. ^ "DBP'li milletvekili Salihe Aydeniz'in dokunulmazlığının kaldırılmasına ilişkin fezleke Karma Komisyon'da". BBC News Türkçe (in Turkish). Retrieved 2022-06-24.
  9. ^ Polise yumruk atan DBP'li Salihe Aydeniz'e soruşturma..., retrieved 2022-06-26
  10. ^ "Summary of proceedings against MP Aydeniz". Bianet. 24 June 2022.
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