Ebru Günay Explained

Ebru Günay
Office:Member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey
Termstart:June 2018
Birth Place:Bingöl, Bingöl Province, Turkey
Birth Date:1 January 1982
Party:HDP
Citizenship:Turkish

Ebru Günay (born 1 January 1982, Bingöl, Turkey) is a Kurdish jurist and a politician of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP). She was elected a member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey in 2018 and is currently the spokeswoman of the HDP.

Education and professional career

Ebru Güney studied law at the Dicle University, from which she graduated in 2006.[1] Following she worked at the Asrin Law Firm, and was involved in the defense of Abdullah Öcalan.[2] She also obtained an MSc in human rights law from the Bilgi University in Istanbul.[3]

Legal prosecution

Ebru Güney was arrested due to an investigation into the activities of the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) in 2009 and prosecuted during the KCK-trial[2] in which the defendants were accused of supporting a terrorist organization.[4] She was released pending trial after five years in April 2014.[1] In September 2019, the Turkish Supreme Appeals court confirmed her acquittal in the KCK main case in which initially more than 150 people were prosecuted.

Political career

Ebru Güney was elected to the Turkish Parliament representing the HDP for Mardin in the parliamentary elections of June 2018[5] and is the current spokeswoman for the HDP.[6] She supports that Kurds can be educated in their native language if they wish and condemns the Turkish denial of Kurds.[7]

Spokeswoman of the HDP

Ebru Güney declared the HDPs opposition to Recep Tayyip Erdoğan denial of Selahattin Demirtaş' release from prison[8] or called for snap elections in October 2020.[9] Following the widely perceived by the Turkish mafia boss Sedat Peker in June 2021, she demanded an investigation into the depopulation policy against the Kurds in the 1990s.[10]

Foreign politics

Ebru Güney and fellow HDP MP Garo Paylan toured several countries in South America in August 2019 and also met the president of the Mercosur Parliament.[11] In September 2020, she took part in the negotiations with representatives of the European Union regarding the human rights situation in Turkey.[12]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Ebrü Günay Kimdir ? - Ebrü Günay Hayatı ve Biyografisi. 2021-01-24. www.haberler.com.
  2. Web site: Günay: March for Democracy against the Coup will start from Edirne prison and Hakkari. live. 2021-01-24. hdp.org.tr. HDP. tr. https://web.archive.org/web/20200815125554/https://hdp.org.tr/en/gunay-march-for-democracy-against-the-coup-will-start-from-edirne-prison-and-hakkari/14327 . 2020-08-15 .
  3. Web site: 24 Haziran 2018 Genel Seçim HDP Mardin Ebru Günay. live. 2021-01-24. Habertürk. TR. https://web.archive.org/web/20200918173523/https://www.haberturk.com/secim/secim2018/genel-secim/aday/ebru-gunay/mardin--201370 . 2020-09-18 .
  4. Web site: 24 September 2019. KCK MAIN CASE: Supreme Court of Appeals Upholds Prison Sentences of 3 HDP MPs. 2021-01-28. Bianet.
  5. Web site: Mardin Seçim Sonuçları - 24 Haziran 2018 Genel Seçimleri. 2021-01-24. www.sabah.com.tr.
  6. Web site: 11 December 2020. Günay: The solution demands of the hunger strikers, are our demands. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20210131042817/http://mezopotamyaajansi26.com/en/ALL-NEWS/content/view/118480 . 2021-01-31 . 2021-01-24. Mezopotamya Agency.
  7. Web site: Seigneur . Margaux . 2022-10-05 . [EXCLUSIVE] Growing Pressure against the HDP in Turkey: Interview with Spokeswoman Ebru Günay ]. 2023-02-02 . The New Global Order . en-US.
  8. Web site: 11 December 2020. 'Demirtaş is held behind bars upon Erdoğan's instruction'. Bianet.
  9. Web site: 23 October 2020. HDP calls for a snap election: 'All this poverty is a harbinger of disaster'. live. 2021-01-24. Bianet. https://web.archive.org/web/20201031235857/https://bianet.org/english/politics/233256-hdp-calls-for-a-snap-election-all-this-poverty-is-a-harbinger-of-disaster . 2020-10-31 .
  10. Web site: 7 June 2021. HDP: Let's pull the brick* and let the truth come to light. live. 17 November 2021. Bianet. https://web.archive.org/web/20210607140220/https://bianet.org/english/politics/245299-hdp-let-s-pull-the-brick-and-let-the-truth-come-to-light . 2021-06-07 .
  11. Web site: August 2019. Parlamentarios de Turquía que visitan Sudamérica se acercan al Parlamento del MERCOSUR. live. 2021-12-17. Mercosur Parliament. es. https://web.archive.org/web/20211217015910/https://www.parlamentomercosur.org/innovaportal/v/17065/2/parlasur/parlamentarios-de-turquia-que-visitan-sudamerica-se-acercan-al-parlamento-del-mercosur.html . 2021-12-17 .
  12. Web site: 2020-09-23. Turkey's pro-Kurdish HDP meets with representatives from 26 EU countries. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20200930210038/https://www.duvarenglish.com/politics/2020/09/23/turkeys-pro-kurdish-hdp-meets-with-representatives-from-26-eu-countries/ . 2020-09-30 . 2021-01-24. Gazete Duvar.

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