Sezgin Tanrıkulu

Sezgin Tanrıkulu (born 27 May 1963) is a Turkish human rights lawyer and politician who has been a member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey for the Republican People's Party (CHP) since 2011. He is known for his work on cases involving Kurdish citizens, mostly during the 1980s and 1990s. Born in Diyarbakır, Tanrıkulu co-founded the Diyarbakır branch of the Human Rights Association and served as president of the Diyarbakır Bar Association from 2002 to 2008. He received the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award in 1997. After joining the CHP in 2010 he was one o the party's deputy chairmen until 2016 and was elected to parliament from Istanbul in 2011, 2015 and also in 2018. In 2023 he was elected from Diyarbakır, the first CHP candidate to win a seat there since 2002. Tanrıkulu has been a subject of several criminal investigations over public statements, including remarks on the military and on the Armenian genocide. He is currently serving as an MP in the Turkish Grand Assembly with the Republican People's Party (CHP).