Orhan Doğan

Orhan Doğan (25 July 1955 – 29 June 2007) was a Kurdish human rights lawyer and politician of the Democratic Society Party.

Education and professional career In 1974 he went to the University of Ankara to study law

Political career He contributed to the Kurdish Report of the Social Democrat Populist Party (SHP) and later resigned from the party in 1989 in protest against the dismissal of seven Kurdish deputies for attending a Kurdish Identity and Human Rights Conference in Paris. later joining the Democracy Party (DEP). He was in Cizre during the Newroz celebrations of 1992 when many attendants were massacred by the Turkish authorities. and Doğan was arrested on the 17 March. He was included as one of the prisoners of conscience of the Amnesty intentional. On the 17 July 2001, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg said the trial against Doğan was unfair. On the 22 April 2004 the European Parliament issued a resolution hoping that the court of appeals quashes the sentence given to Doğan and others and that an amnesty will be declared to all imprisoned because of their political views.

Upon his release in 2004 he helped to found the Democratic Society Party (DTP). One is the journalist and politician Aysegul Dogan.