Ali Bozan
Ali Bozan (born 1978, in Adiyaman, Turkey) is a lawyer and politician. He is a former politician of the Democratic Society Party (DTP) and since June 2023, a member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey representing the Green Left Party (YSP).
Early life and education[edit]
Ali Bozan was born in Adiyaman in 1978 and moved with his family to Mersin in 1984.[1] He attended primary school and high school in Mersin.[1] Following he studied law at the Dokuz Eylül University in Izmir.[1]
Professional career[edit]
Ali Bozan became a member of the Mersin Bar association[1] and his defendants include journalists of the newspaper Evrensel[2] or Aysel Tugluk, a politician of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) whom he represents in the Kobani trial.[3]
Political career[edit]
In 2006 he became the head of the Mersin branch of the DTP.[1] The same year, he was charged with terrorist propaganda for having attended a funeral of militants of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and deemed the Turkish police officers who kill children terrorists.[4] In 2006 he was arrested for two months and later released pending trial.[1] As a result of the closure case of the DTP that concluded in 2009, Bozan was banned from political office for five years.[5] Bozan eventually began to serve his prison sentence due to the terror related charge of 2006 in 2010.[4] He was released in 2012.[1]
Ali Bozan eventually appealed to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), which in 2020 ruled that there was a violation article 10 of the European convention of Human Rights regarding freedom of speech and Turkey was condemned to pay a penalty of 6'€500 to Bozan.[4] In October 2017 he was arrested for a few days together with other layers from the Mersin Bar Association.[6] He was investigated for terror related charges over the possession of a book about Kurds in Rojava by Fehim Tastekin.[7] In the parliamentary elections of May 2023, Ali Bozan was elected to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey representing the YSP for Mersin.[8]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e f g "Ali Bozan ; Kimdir,Kaç Yaşında? Nereden Milletvekili Adayı?". Halk TV (in Turkish). 2023-05-10. Retrieved 2023-06-20.
- ^ "Turkey: Evrensel journalists Cemil Ugur and Halil Ibrahim Polat in detention". English Pen. Retrieved 2023-06-20.
- ^ "Kobanê Trial: Tuğluk will be held in forensic medicine institution for 3 weeks". ANF News. Retrieved 2023-06-20.
- ^ a b c "CASE OF BOZAN v. TURKEY (European Court of Human Rights) – LawEuro". 2020-10-02. Retrieved 2023-06-20.
- ^ "Turkey Shuts Down Kurdish Political Party – Asbarez.com". Retrieved 2023-06-20.
- ^ Initiative, The Arrested Lawyers (2017-10-09). "Weekly Report: The Persecution On Turkish Lawyers (2-8 October) - The Arrested Lawyers Initiative". arrestedlawyers.org. Retrieved 2023-06-20.
- ^ KEDISTAN (2017-10-17). "Fehim Taştekin's book "Rojava, the time of the Kurds", banned". KEDISTAN (in French). Retrieved 2023-06-20.
- ^ "Mersin Seçim Sonuçları - 2023 Genel Seçim Mersin Oy Oranları | CANLI". Yeni Şafak (in Turkish). 2023-06-20. Retrieved 2023-06-20.