Figen Yüksekdağ.
CEFTUS Centre for Turkey Studies will hold a public forum with HDP (the People’s Democratic Party) Co- Chair Ms Figen Yuksekdag on 30 November 2015 at Committee Room 9 in the House of Commons.
The seminar, Post-Election Turkey: Is Peace Achievable? will be hosted by Seema Malthora MP for Feltham and Heston and take place between 7pm and 9pm. MP Joan Ryan and Lord William Wallace will direct the conference.
Guests who would like to attend are kindly asked to arrive at 6.30PM to allow the event to start and end on time. Booking is required for this event to ensure adequate seating available.
Co-Chair of Turkey’s second biggest opposition party, the HDP, Ms Figen Yuksekdag will elaborate on the developments over the last two years and address the HDP’s strategies for peaceful reconciliation in Turkey.
Figen Yüksekdag was born in Adana, Turkey, into an ethnically Turkish family. She is often assumed to be Kurdish or Alevi, however her family are Sunni Turks. She was an independent parliamentary candidate for the Adana electoral district in the 2002 general election. She was involved in women’s rights movements for several years before becoming the editor of the Socialist Woman magazine. While serving on the board of the Atılım newspaper, she was taken into custody in 2009 due to her political activity. She cofounded the Socialist Party of the Oppressed (ESP) shortly after in 2010 and resigned as leader in 2014 to join the HDP, with which the ESP merged later the same year. During the second ordinary congress of the HDP, she was elected the co-chair of the HDP.
Those who wanted attend can log onto the following websites www.ceftus.org veya www.kurdishprogress.org or send the email address to this email info@ceftus.org.