| Nuran Imir | |
| Office: | Member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey |
| Birth Place: | Cizre |
| Termstart: | 2018 |
| Constituency: | Sirnak |
| Parliamentarygroup: | HDP |
| Party: | HDP |
Nuran İmir (born 1977, Cizre) is a politician of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) and a member in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. Having been a member of the Peoples Democracy Party for over a decade, she moved to Germany in 2003. She returned to Turkey in 2015, eventually becoming a Member of Parliament for the HDP in 2018.
İmir was a member of the HADEP between 1994 and 2003.[1] During this time, she was involved in supporting the youth and women.[2] In 2003 she left Turkey and settled in Germany. She returned in 2015, when the opportunities for the Kurds became better.[3] In the parliamentary elections of 2018 Imir was elected into the Grand National Assembly of Turkey representing the HDP for Sirnak.[4]
She is a human rights activist and has presented several parliamentary questions to Justice Minister Abdülhamit Gül.[5] [6] [7] She demands better opportunities for the Kurdish speaking youth in Turkey and blames the European Union for remaining too silent in regards to human rights violations in Turkey.[8]
On the 17 March 2021, Bekir Şahin, the state prosecutor to the Turkish Court of Cassation filed a lawsuit before the Constitutional Court demanding for İmir and 686 other HDP politicians a five-year ban to participate in politics.[9] The lawsuit was filed together with the request for a closure of the HDP due to the parties alleged organizational links with the PKK. In January 2022, a prosecutor demanded the lifting of her parliamentary immunity.[10]
Besides a Turkish citizenship, she is also holds a German citizenship. Her mother lived in Germany.[11] According to an interview she gave to the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, her brother lost an arm while he fought the Islamic State in Iraq.