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Kemal Bülbül

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Kemal Bülbül
Kemal Bülbül
Member of the Grand National Assembly
Assumed office
November 2015
ConstituencyAntalya (2015)
Personal details
Born1963
Şotik, Arguvan, Turkey
Children1
OccupationPolitician

Kemal Bülbül (born 1963 in Arguvan) is a Turkish teacher, politician and member of the 27th Grand National Assembly of Turkey for HDP. Bülbül is Kurdish and Alevi.[1][2]

Biography

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Bülbül was born in the village of Şotik in Arguvan of Malatya Province in Turkey.

He graduated from Trakya University and worked as a teacher in Kâhta, Ankara and Van. He founded the Confederation of Public Employees' Unions. He served as General President of the Pir Sultan Abdal Cultural Association and the General Secretary of the Alevi Bektashi Federation. He moreover served as the Ankara Provincial Head of HADEP.[2]

In November 2020, he was sentenced to six years in prison for attending a meeting of Democratic Society Congress.[3]

References

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  1. ^ "Kemal Bülbül" (in Turkish). Archived from the original on 22 August 2020. Retrieved 26 June 2021.
  2. ^ a b "Kemal Bülbül" (in Turkish). Retrieved 27 June 2021.
  3. ^ "Kurdish MP sentenced to over 6 years in Turkey on terror charges". Rûdaw. 26 November 2020. Retrieved 26 June 2021.