Rıdvan Turan | |
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Member of the Grand National Assembly | |
Assumed office 8 July 2018 | |
Constituency | Mersin ( 2018) |
In office 7 June 2015 – 1 November 2015 | |
Constituency | Adana ( June 2015) |
Personal details | |
Born | Reşadiye, Tokat, Turkey | March 29, 1971
Political party | Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) |
Alma mater | Uludağ University |
Occupation | Politician |
Rıdvan Turan (born 1 January 1971) is a Turkish politician from the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), who serves as a Member of Parliament for Mersin. [1]
Born in Reşadiye, Tokat, Turan graduated from Uludağ University Faculty of Medicine in 1995. In 2008, he was elected as the leader of the Socialist Democracy Party, which was a member of the Peoples' Democratic Congress and was thus instrumental in the establishment of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) in 2012. In Jul 2013 he was convicted to 6 years and 3 months imprisonment being a member of an illegal organization. The sentence was appealed. [2] He was elected Member of Parliament for the HDP in the June 2015 general election [3] but lost his seat in the snap election held on 1 November 2015.
He regained a seat in the 2018 parliamentary election representing Mersin. [4]