İbrahim Ayhan

İbrahim Ayhan
MP
Member of the Grand National Assembly
Assumed office
12 June 2011
Constituency Şanlıurfa (2011, June 2015, Nov 2015)
Personal details
Born (1968-10-02) 2 October 1968
Siverek, Şanlıurfa, Turkey
Political party Peace and Democracy Party
(2008–2014)
Peoples' Democratic Party
(2014–present)
Other political
affiliations
Group of Communities in Kurdistan (KCK)
Alma mater Yüzüncü Yıl University

İbrahim Ayhan (born 10 February 1968) is a Turkish politician of Kurdish origin who has been a Member of Parliament for his hometown of Şanlıurfa since 12 June 2011. He was first elected as an independent alongside all the other successful candidates of the Kurdish nationalist Peace and Democracy Party (BDP), which fielded candidates as independents in order to bypass the 10% election threshold needed to gain representation in the Grand National Assembly.

On 5 October 2010, he was arrested as part of an investigation into the Kurdish confederalist Group of Communities in Kurdistan (KCK) organisation. He appealed to the Constitutional Court, claiming that the legally allowed detention time had been exceeded and his right to stand in elections had been violated.[1] He was released alongside imprisoned Mardin MP Gülser Yıldırım on 3 January 2014.[2] On 28 August 2014, he joined the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) parliamentary caucus along with all other BDP MPs.

Born in Siverek, Şanlıurfa, he graduated from the Yüzüncü Yıl University in Van. He is married with two children.[3]

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