Emine Ayna
{{short description|Turkish politician}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Emine Ayna
| office = Member of the Grand National Assembly
| country = Turkey
| termend = 2015
| termstart = 2007
| constituency = Mardin (2007, 2011)
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1976|7|1}}
| birth_place = Dicle, Diyarbakır
| citizenship = Turkey
| parents = Günay and Osman Ayna
| preceded1 =
| preceded =
| office1 =
}}
Emine Ayna, (1 July 1968, Dicle, Diyarbakir, Turkey) is a Kurdish politician.{{cite news |title=DTP'li Ayna: 'Kürt olmasının ölçüsü DTP'dir' |url=https://www.milliyet.com.tr/siyaset/dtpli-ayna-kurt-olmasinin-olcusu-dtpdir-1071024 |access-date=22 March 2020 |agency=Milliyet |language=tr}}{{cite journal |last1=Kuzu |first1=Durukan |title=The politics of identity, recognition and multiculturalism: the Kurds in Turkey |journal=Nations and Nationalism |date=28 December 2015 |volume=22 |issue=1 |pages=123–142 |doi=10.1111/nana.12139 |url=https://ecpr.eu/Filestore/PaperProposal/ab0f721c-d907-48f9-8d78-430dbd0b6428.pdf |access-date=9 April 2020}} She was a member of the former Democratic Society Party (DTP). She joined the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP), after the Constitutional Court banned DTP on 11 December 2009.
Life and career
Emine Ayna was born in Dicle in 1968, to mother Günay and father Osman. She is a niece of Ömer Ayna, one of ten victims of the Kızıldere Operation (30 March 1972).Veli Yılmaz, [https://books.google.com/books?id=8yYgAAAAIAAJ&q=%C3%96mer+Ayna+K%C4%B1z%C4%B1ldere Emirle gelen idam kararı], Tümzamanlaryayıncılık, 1992, p. 33, {{in lang|tr}} She is a high school graduate and founder of the Rainbow Women's Association. In 2007, she stood as an independent candidate within the Thousand Hopes alliance in the Turkish parliamentary elections,{{Cite web|url=https://m.bianet.org/biamag/women/100230-meet-our-women-parliamentarians|title=Meet Our Women Parliamentarians|last=Zengin|first=Nilüfer|date=30 January 2007|website=Bianet|access-date=13 December 2019}} receiving 15.57% of the vote in Mardin and entering the Turkish Parliament.{{Cite web|url=http://bianet.org/english/politics/184828-dbp-former-co-chair-emine-ayna-released?bia_source=rss|title=DPB former Co-President Emine Ayna Released|date=24 March 2017|website=Bianet}}
On 20 July 2008, she was elected to the DTP leadership, sharing this position with Ahmet Türk. She also became Chair of the DTP Parliamentary Group, when Ahmet Türk resigned. She is widely viewed as a hardliner in demanding Kurdish cultural and political rights.{{Cite web|url=https://jamestown.org/program/a-hawk-and-a-dove-share-the-dtp-leadership/|title=A HAWK AND A DOVE SHARE THE DTP LEADERSHIP|website=Jamestown|language=en-US|access-date=2019-12-13}}
In June 2011, she was sentenced to 10 months imprisonment, for making terrorist propaganda for a speech she held at a Newroz celebration in Siirt in 2007. It was stated that at the celebration she wore clothes featuring symbols of an illegal organization and that posters were also shown with the leaders of an illegal organization.{{Cite web|url=http://bianet.org/english/minorities/130815-10-month-prison-sentence-for-kurdish-politician-ayna|title=10-Month Prison Sentence for Kurdish Politician Ayna|date=17 June 2011|website=Bianet}}
In 2009, she stated that she could not speak Kurdish.{{Cite web|url=http://www.aksam.com.tr/2009/09/28/yazdir_yazar/14399/asli_aydintasbas/dtp_dikkat_etmeli.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120718235436/http://www.aksam.com.tr/2009/09/28/yazdir_yazar/14399/asli_aydintasbas/dtp_dikkat_etmeli.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-07-18 |title=Aslı Aydıntaşbaş - DTP dikkat etmeli - AKŞAM - Türkiyenin Haber Sitesi - Son Dakika Haberleri - Güncel haberler |publisher=Aksam.com.tr |date=2009-09-28 |access-date=2010-09-08 }}
External links
- [http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5770560178584934120/posts/default Interview with Emine Ayna, June 2009]
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Category:Turkish Kurdish politicians
Category:Democratic Society Party politicians
Category:Democratic Regions Party politicians
Category:Deputies of Diyarbakır
Category:Members of the 24th Parliament of Turkey
Category:Members of the 23rd Parliament of Turkey
Category:21st-century Turkish women politicians
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