Dilek Öcalan
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Dilek Öcalan MP |
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| Member of the Grand National Assembly | |
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Assumed office 7 June 2015 |
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| Constituency | Şanlıurfa (June 2015, Nov 2015) |
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| Born |
3 October 1987 Şanlıurfa, Turkey |
| Nationality | Turkish |
| Political party | Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) |
| Other political affiliations |
Democratic Regions Party (DBP) |
| Occupation | Politician |
Dilek Öcalan (born 3 October 1987) is a Turkish politician of Kurdish origin from the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) who currently serves as a Member of Parliament for the electoral district of Şanlıurfa since 7 June 2015. She is the niece of Abdullah Öcalan, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militant organisation that has been in conflict with the Turkish Armed Forces since the 1980s, making both her candidacy and election to Parliament highly controversial.
Dilek Öcalan was born on 3 October 1987 in Şanlıurfa as the daughter of Fatma Öcalan, the sister of imprisoned PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan. On 23 December 2013, she visited her uncle at İmralı Prison and became known to the media after she gave a press statement detailing the conversation between them. Öcalan has been imprisoned since 1999, serving aggravated life imprisonment under charges of founding and leading a terrorist organisation (namely the PKK, which is recognised as a terrorist organisation by Turkey, the European Union and the United States).
Öcalan first entered politics in 2012, a year before meeting her uncle on the Island of İmralı. During the third congress of the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP), she was elected to the party executive while the party changed its name to Democratic Regions Party (DBP) and adopted a fraternal relationship with the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP).
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