Osman Baydemir
Turkish attorney and statesperson (born 1971)
Osman Baydemir (born 6 June 1971) is a Kurdish politician, lawyer and human rights activist. He was the mayor of his home town of Diyarbakır from 2004 to 2014. He was a member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey for the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) and also the Peoples Democratic Party (HDP). “He is widely known for his remark in the Turkish Parliament in 2017, when — after being asked where ‘Kurdistan’ was — he touched his heart and replied, ‘Here is the Kurdistan.’
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