Sırrı Sakık
Sırrı Sakık
Member of Parliament
In office
1991–1994
Parliamentary groupSHP
DEP
ConstituencyMuş
Member of Parliament
In office
2007–2011
Parliamentary groupDTP
ConstituencyMuş
Member of Parliament
In office
2011–2014
Parliamentary groupBDP
ConstituencyMuş
Personal details
Born1 August 1957
Yörecik, Muş

Sırrı Sakık (born 1 August 1957, Yörecik, Muş Province, Turkey[1]) is a Turkish-Kurdish journalist and politician. He is a member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey and Mayor of Ağrı.

He was elected in the 2023 Turkish parliamentary election.

Background

Sakık is the brother of former Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) commander Şemdin Sakık. His brother Abdul Samed Sakık, a Democracy Party (DEP) politician who was the party's chair in Gaziantep, was assassinated on 2 October 1993.[2] Sakık was involved in the tourism sector and was also a journalist for Cumhuriyet and Vatan.[3]

Political career

Sakık was first elected to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey in 1991 on a ticket of the Social Democratic People's Party (SHP).[4] He was a founding member of the Democracy Party (DEP) in 1993, and was one of the DEP deputies sentenced in 1994 to 15 years in prison for links with Kurdish militants, after their parliamentary immunity was revoked.[5] He was later released, and played a role in the People's Democracy Party (HADEP), being arrested after a 1996 incident in which masked men dropped the Turkish flag at its party congress and raised the PKK flag (Sakık had walked out in protest, but later said all flags should be respected).[6][7]

He was a founding member of the Democratic Society Party (DTP) in 2005[8] and entered parliament again in 2007, technically running as an independent.[9] He was deputy chairman of the DTP.[10]

He was re-elected in 2011 for the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) (again, technically as an independent), after the DTP was banned in 2009.[1][11] In 2012 he displayed a bullet in parliament, which he said had been sent to him as a death threat.[12] On 15 September 2012 his son Sedar Sakık committed suicide by jumping from the balcony of his house.[13] In the 2014 local elections he was elected as mayor of Ağrı. In March 2017 he was suspended from his office as Mayor by the Turkish Minister of the Interior.[14] A trustee was appointed instead for Ağrı Municipality.[14]

Political positions

He supported women's participation in politics[15] and opposed the electoral process which included a 10% threshold for parties which forced politicians of the DTP to present themselves as independent candidates.[15] He also supported a Kurdish participation in a political and democratic environment.[10]

References

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  1. 1 2 kimkimdir.gen.tr, Sırrı Sakık (1957 - .... )
  2. ↑ "Disappearances and political killings: Human Rights Crisis of the 1990s. A manual for action" (PDF). Amnesty International. Retrieved 7 May 2021.
  3. ↑ "Trustee Appointed to Ağrı Municipality, Sırrı Sakık Discharged". Retrieved 5 March 2020.
  4. ↑ "Muş SEÇİM SONUÇLARI". secim.haberler.com. Retrieved 5 March 2020.
  5. ↑ Turkish Daily News, 30 April 1998, Parliament reluctant to expose members to prosecution
  6. ↑ Turkish Daily News, 29 June 1996, Sakik blames media after being arrested
  7. ↑ Turkish Daily News, 28 September 1996, 11 HADEP defendants released
  8. ↑ Turkish Daily News, 15 June 2005, Charges could be filed against Democratic Society Movement
  9. ↑ "Muş SEÇİM SONUÇLARI". secim.haberler.com. Retrieved 5 March 2020.
  10. 1 2 "Pro-Kurd party unveils strategy for Turkey vote". Reuters. 9 May 2007. Retrieved 5 March 2020.
  11. ↑ tbmm.gov.tr, Türkiye Büyük Millet Meclisi 23. Dönem Milletvekili
  12. ↑ Hurriyet Daily News, 12 January 2012, Bullet at rostrum
  13. ↑ "Arşivlenmiş kopya". Archived from the original on 15 January 2013. Retrieved 4 January 2013.
  14. 1 2 "Ağrı Co-mayor Sırrı Sakık suspended". ANF News. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
  15. 1 2 "DTP deputies complete MP registration". Today's Zaman. 30 July 2007. Archived from the original on 7 April 2009. Retrieved 28 August 2008.
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