Öztürk Türkdoğan

Öztürk Türkdoğan (born 10 November 1969 in Kars, Turkey) is a lawyer and Human Rights activist and politician. He was the head of the Turkish Human Rights Association (IHD), a member of the Wise People committee for the peace process in 2013 and for the parliamentary elections of May 2023, he has become a candidate to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey for the Green Left Party (YSP).

Early life and education Öztürk Türkdogan was born in a village in Selim of Kars where he attended primary school later transferring to Erzurum where he completed primary school and began attending high school. He moved a gain to Izmir, where he completed high school in Bergama. Türkdogan resigned from the leadership of the IHD in March 2023, after he decided to run as a candidate to the Turkish parliament. Eren Keskin became his successor. The same day he was released pending trial. The month before, the interior minister accused the IHD of being linked to the PKK. Soylu deemed he statements regarding the deaths of Turkish soldiers in a Turkish military operation by the IHD, the PKK and HDP as similar. By the prosecution, he was accused of being part of an illegal organization. Since, January 2022, he was also investigated over the publication of a petition that called for the recognition of the Armenian Genocide on the IHD website In April 2022, he was acquitted from being part of an illegal organization, but the other trials kept ongoing.

Personal life He is married and has two children.