Tursunbai Bakir uulu
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Tursunbai Bakir uulu (born March 17, 1958 in Kara-Suu, Osh Oblast) is a Kyrgyz politician, ombudsman and presidential candidate. A teacher by training, a historian, and a doctor of philosophy he is married with four children.
He was first elected in 1995 as a member of the legislative assembly, after he helped set up the Erkin Kyrgyzstan Progressive Democratic Party political party. In 2000 he was given a fresh mandate, and two years later made Kyrgyzstan's ombudsman. Regularly vocal in his opposition to Askar Akayev, Bakir uulu called for the abolishment of the death penalty, the release of Felix Kulov from prison, an end to the ban on the Islamic movement Hizb-ut Tahrir, and called the 2005 legislative election the least free and fair the nation had ever seen.
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