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Ali Atalan
Ali Atalan (born 5 January 1968 in Midyat) is a Turkish-German politician. Formerly a member of the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia with Die Linke, he is currently a member of the Turkish Parliament with the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP).
Biography.
Ali Atalan grew up in a Yazidi family and came to Germany in 1985. After completing his Abitur in 1997, he studied political science and sociology at the Ruhr University Bochum, where he graduated in 2004 with a Diplom
National Assembly. Along with fellow party member Feleknas Uca, he became the first ever Yazidi member of the Assembly.
On 13 November 2015, the town of Nusaybin was placed under a curfew by the Turkish authorities, and Atalan and Gülser Yıldırım, another elected member of the Assembly, began a hunger strike in protest after two local civilians and ten PKK fighters had been killed by security forces.
External links.
- Archived homepage of Ali Atalan
- 13 questions answered by Ali Atalan
- WDR profile on