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 Prominent Turkish Kurd politician Orhan Dogan dies of heart attack

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Prominent Turkish Kurd politician Orhan Dogan dies of heart attack  30.6.2007 

 



June 30, 2007

VAN, Kurdish Southeastern region of Turkey, --   Prominent Turkish Kurd politician Orhan Dogan died Friday in hospital in the eastern Kurdish city of Van after suffering a heart attack at the weekend, doctors said.

The 55-year-old was among several Kurdish activists who entered the Turkish parliament in 1991, including human rights award winner Leyla Zana. They lost their seats three years later for supporting armed Kurdish rebels fighting the government.

Dogan, Zana and two others spent 10 years in jail for collaborating with the rebels before being released in June 2004.

Dogan had put forward his candidacy to run again in general elections on July 22, but electoral authorities said he was no longer eligible because of his conviction.

He suffered cardiac arrest while making a speech at a festival in the eastern town of Dogubeyazit on Sunday.

AFP

** The use of the term "Kurdistan" is vigorously rejected due to its alleged political implications by the Republic of Turkey, which does not recognize the existence of a "Turkish Kurdistan" Southeast Turkey.

Kurds are not recognized as an official minority in Turkey and are denied rights granted to other minority groups. Under EU pressure, Turkey recently granted Kurds limited rights for broadcasts and education in the Kurdish language, but critics say the measures do not go far enough.

Others estimate over 40 million Kurds live in Big Kurdistan (Iraq, Turkey, Syria, Iran, Armenia), which covers an area as big as France, about half of all Kurds which estimate to 20 million live in Turkey.

Turkey is home to over 25 million ethnic Kurds, some of whom openly sympathise with the Kurdish PKK for a Kurdish homeland in the country's mainly Kurdish southeast of Turkey.

Before August 2002, the Turkish government placed severe restrictions on the use of Kurdish language, prohibiting the language in education and broadcast media. The Kurdish alphabet is still not recognized in Turkey, and use of the Kurdish letters X, W, Q which do not exist in the Turkish alphabet has led to judicial persecution in 2000 and 2003

The Kurdish flag flown officially in Iraqi Kurdistan but unofficially flown by Kurds in Armenia. The flag is banned in Iran, Syria, and Turkey where flying it is a criminal offence" 

Southeastern Turkey: North Kurdistan ( Kurdistan-Turkey) wikipedia  

Orhan Dogan, Kurdish activists and former MPs, in Turkey


Kurdish activist and former MP Leyla Zana (2nd-L) and Kurdish activists and former MPs, Orhan Dogan (L)


Kurdish activist and former MP Leyla Zana (2nd-L)  and Kurdish activists and former MPs, Orhan Dogan (2nd-R)
 

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