Selim Sadak
{{Short description|Turkish politician (born 1954)}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Selim Sadak
| office = Member of the Grand National Assembly
| termstart = 14 November 1991
| termend = 3 March 1994
| citizenship =
| birth_name = Selim Sadak
| birth_place = Idil, Şırnak, Turkey
| education = Diyarbakır Eğitim Enstitüsü
| office2 = Mayor of Siirt
| termstart2 = 29 March 2009
| termend2 = 30 March 2014
| constituency = Şırnak (1991)
| image = Selîm Sadak.jpg
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1954}}
| predecessor2 = Mervan Gül
| successor2 = Tuncer Bakırhan
| children = 10
}}
Selim Sadak, (born 1954[http://www.okimdir.com/selim-sadak-biyografi.html Selim Sadak kimdir?], Okimdir.com, Erişim Tarihi: 6 December 2008.) is a Turkish politician of Kurdish origin.
Background
Selim Sadak was born in İdil and graduated from the Mathematics department of Diyarbakır Eğitim Enstitüsü. He then worked as a freelancer in Kurdish, English and Arabic.
Political career
In the 1991 Turkey Parliamentary general election, he joined Leyla Zana, Mahmut Alınak, Hatip Dicle, Orhan Doğan, Ahmet Türk, Sırrı Sakık and Sedat Yurtdaş in the Social Democratic Populist Party (SHP) and was elected as the member of parliament for Şırnak in the 19th Parliament of Turkey. In March 1994, the parliamentary immunity was lifted from Selim Sadak, Orhan Dogan, Hatip Dicle and Leyla Zana.{{Cite web |title=Human rights of parliamentarians: 167th Council session |url=http://archive.ipu.org/hr-e/167/Tk39.htm |access-date=2022-10-23 |website=archive.ipu.org}} On 16 June 1994 the Democracy Party (DEP) was closed down by the Turkish Constitutional Court, and Selim Sadak, along with other members of the party, were put in prison. Based on a decision by the State Security Court he was sentenced to 15 years in prison in 1994.{{Cite web|url=http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+TA+P5-TA-2004-0377+0+DOC+XML+V0//EN|title=Texts adopted - Thursday, 22 April 2004 - Trial against Leyla Zana and others in Ankara - P5_TA(2004)0377|website=www.europarl.europa.eu|access-date=2019-01-05}} In April 2004 the European parliament condemned the imprisonment of Sadak and hoped for the quashing of the sentence in a resolution.{{Cite web|url=https://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+TA+P5-TA-2004-0377+0+DOC+XML+V0//EN|title=Texts adopted - Thursday, 22 April 2004 - Trial against Leyla Zana and others in Ankara - P5_TA(2004)0377|website=www.europarl.europa.eu|access-date=2019-12-12}} He was released in June 2004 following a decision of Turkey's Appeal Court.{{Cite web|url=https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2004_2009/documents/fd/nt_zana_/nt_zana_en.pdf|title=Leyla Zana, European Parliament's Sakharov Prize Winner of 1995|last=|first=|date=|website=Europarl|access-date=12 December 2019}}
=Later career and prosecution=
Following his release from prison, Sadak toured the countryside testing the possibilities of founding a new party.{{Cite web |last=Vick |first=Karl |date=6 October 2005 |title=As Turkey Reaches Out, Kurdish Politicians Look Back |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2005/10/06/as-turkey-reaches-out-kurdish-politicians-look-back/6359fc65-1727-45f2-9989-22f01b754dbb/ |website=Washington Post}} At the time he saw it difficult a Kurdish party could be formed without referencing Öcalan. Sadak along with Leyla Zana and Hatip Dicle set up the Democratic Society Party (DTP) and was elected mayor of Siirt under the DTP, receiving 49,4% of the votes in the local elections in March 2009.{{Cite web|url=https://secim.haberler.com/2009/illerde-durum/|title=PARTİ İL SEÇİM SONUÇLARI|website=secim.haberler.com|access-date=2019-12-12}}
In December 2009, however, Turkey banned the DTP due to alleged links with the PKK and Selim Sadak as well as Ahmet Türk, Aysel Tuğluk, Leyla Zana and Nurettin Demirtaş, were banned from politics for 5 years.{{Cite web |date=2011-10-07 |title=Turkey's Constitutional Court closes DTP - Hurriyet Daily News |url=http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=constitutional-court-votes-to-xx-turkey-pro-kurdish-part-2009-12-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111007035823/http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=constitutional-court-votes-to-xx-turkey-pro-kurdish-part-2009-12-11 |archive-date=2011-10-07 |access-date=2022-10-23 |website=Hürriyet Daily News}} In 2010 he was dismissed by the Interior Ministry as Mayor of Siirt after a sentence of 10 months imprisonment from 2008 got confirmed, a decision he objected. Then the Council of State Administrative Trials Board General Council overruled the decision of the Interior Ministry to dismiss Sadak and ruled he can stay Mayor of Siirt until the end of his term.{{Cite web|url=https://www.worldbulletin.net/politics/turkeys-council-of-state-overrules-sacking-of-mayor-over-pkk-propaganda-h96091.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190106104356/https://www.worldbulletin.net/politics/turkeys-council-of-state-overrules-sacking-of-mayor-over-pkk-propaganda-h96091.html|url-status=usurped|archive-date=January 6, 2019|title=Turkey's Council of State overrules sacking of mayor over PKK propaganda|website=World Bulletin}}{{Cite web|url=https://anfenglish.com/news/siirt-mayor-sadak-will-not-be-removed-5975|title=Siirt mayor Sadak will not be removed|website=ANF News|language=en|access-date=2019-01-05}}
On 26 April 2010 he was sentenced of 1 year imprisonment because he used the word Kurdistan and on the 13 April to 10 months imprisonment for a photo depicted in a calendar of 2010.{{Cite web|url=http://bianet.org/english/english/121608-1-year-and-10-months-in-jail-for-mayor-selim-sadak|title=1 Year and 10 Months in Jail for Mayor Selim Sadak|date=28 April 2010|website=Bianet}}
In August 2011 he was sentenced in Siirt Criminal Court to five months in prison, a sentence which was later converted to a fine.{{cite web|title= Siirt Mayor Selim Sadak'a were sentenced to 5 months in prison|publisher=Haber Monitor
|date=2011-08-14|url= http://www.habermonitor.com/en/haber/detay/31997/siirt-mayor-selim-sadak39a-were-sentenced-to
|accessdate=2011-10-14}}
On 7 October 2011 he was sentenced in Diyarbakir court to one year and eight months prison for terrorist propaganda in relation to a speech that he made in 2007.{{cite web|title= 150 ans de prison pour trois députées kurdes dont Leyla Zana
|publisher=Le Post|date=2011-10-13|url= http://www.lepost.fr/article/2011/10/13/2612904_150-ans-de-prison-pour-trois-deputees-kurdes-dont-leyla-zana.html|accessdate=2011-10-14}}
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20090324074929/http://www.selimsadak.com/ Selim Sadak web site]
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