Mahmut Alınak

Mahmut Alınak (born 1952, Digor (District), Kars, Kars Province), is a Turkish lawyer, author and politician, of Kurdish origin, and a former parliamentary deputy.

Alınak is a graduate of Ankara University's law faculty. In the Turkish general election, 1987 he was elected to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey for the Social Democratic Populist Party (SHP), representing Kars. In the Turkish general election, 1991 he was re-elected representing Şırnak, later joining others in the new Democracy Party (DEP). He was one of six DEP deputies whose parliamentary immunity was removed in 1994 to enable prosecution for alleged promotion of Kurdish separatism. He was sentenced to three years six months in December 1994.

In September 1997 Alınak published a novel, Şiro'nun Ateşi ("The Heat of Şiro") based on the real events of the village of Ormaniçi in the Güçlükonak district of the province of Şırnak, where villagers were mistreated by state security and tried unsuccessfully to obtain justice. The book was seized and banned, which the European Court of Human Rights ruled a breach of Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights in 2005.

He was later the local chairman in Kars for the Democratic Society Party (founded 2005), and was an independent candidate associated with the party in the 2007 general elections, but failed to enter parliament. In 2008 he withdrew from a contest in which Ahmet Türk became co-leader of the party, saying he did not want to run against his friend.

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