Mithat Sancar
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Mithat Sancar MP |
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Mithat Sancar, 2015
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| Member of the Grand National Assembly | |
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Assumed office 7 June 2015 |
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| Constituency | Mardin (June 2015, Nov 2015) |
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| Born | 1963 Nusaybin, Turkey |
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 Turkey
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| Political party | People's Democratic Party (HDP) |
| Spouse(s) | Türkan Sancar |
| Alma mater | Ankara University |
| Profession | Constitutional law scholar |
Mithat Sancar (born 1963 in Nusaybin) is a Turkish professor of public and constitutional law, columnist and translator. Since the June 2015 general election he is a member of the Turkish parliament for Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP).
Born 1963 in Nusaybin, Sancar attended high school in Diyarbakır before going to Ankara University, where he graduated majoring in public law. In 1995, following his graduation, he received his Ph.D. in constitutional law with a thesis on the "Interpretation of Basic Rights" (Turkish: Temel Hakların Yorumu).
Since 1999, he has been a lecturer and since 2007 a full professor at Ankara University. Together with fellow scholar Tanıl Bora, he translated Jürgen Habermas' first major work "Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit" into the Turkish language.
Mithat Sancar is one of the founders of the Ankara-based Human Rights Foundation (TİHV, est. 1990) and the Institute of Human Rights (TİHAK, est. 1999). Between 1998 and 2003, Sancar and his colleague Tanıl Bora organized the Human Rights Association's (İHD) annual conference on the Human rights movement in Turkey.
Since 2007, he has been a columnist for the leftist BirGün newspaper.
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