Nursel Aydoğan
Nursel Aydoğan, is a Turkish politician and former MP for Diyarbakir.
In 1983 she graduated from Hacettepe University department of food engineering. Since then she has worked as a food engineer.
She became active in human rights groups and politics and in 2003 was spokeswoman for the Federation of Associations of Families of Detainees and Convicts for Cooperation Three years later she is quoted as the Chairman of TUAD-FED.
She is a founding member of the Peace and Democracy Party. In the June 2011 General election, running as an independent candidate, she was elected to the Turkish Parliament as an MP for Diyarbakir.
In October 2011, she was charged with making propaganda for a terrorist organization. The chief prosecutor asked for a 72-year prison sentence.
In the June 2015 Elections and the November 2015 election she was reelected as a member of parliament for the HDP in the province Diyabakir. Her immunity was lifted on 20 May 2016 and she was detained on 4 November 2016. According to her party she was accused of "attending a funeral, joining a protest, standing behind a banner that read “Enough, No More Deaths, May Freedom Grow” during a protest, and giving speeches during press conferences." For these offenses she was sentenced to 4 years 8 months and 7 days in prison on 13 January 2017. In May 2017 she was stripped of her mandate in the Turkish Parliament.
