Hişyar Özsoy

Hişyar Özsoy, (born 26 June 1977, Yeniköy, Bingöl) is a Kurdish academic and politician and member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP)

Hişyar Özsoy
Hisyar Özsöy at an OSCE meeting in Vienna in February 2017
Member of Parliament
In office
June 2015 – November 2015
ConstituencyBingöl
In office
November 2015 – June 2018
ConstituencyBingöl
Personal details
Born26 June 1977
Yeniköy, Bingöl
CitizenshipTurkish
NationalityKurdish
Political partyHDP
Alma materUniversity of Texas Austin
OccupationLecturer, political scientist, politician

Education and academic career

Özsoy graduated with a bachelor's degree in sociology from Boğaziçi University in 2002[1] and earned a master's degree in 2004 and a Ph.D in Political Anthropology 2010, both from the University of Texas in Austin.[2][1] From 2011 onwards he lectured at the University of Michigan. He is experienced in pedagogics and in 2012 he was chosen as a lecturer in the Thompson Center for learning and teaching of the University of Michigan.[3]

Political career

He began is political career working as a coordinator of foreign relations and a political consultant for the municipality in Diyarbakır between 2005 and 2008.[1] He was elected as member of Grand National Assembly of Turkey in the parliamentary elections of June 2015 for Bingöl representing the HDP,[4] and re-elected in the snap election in November 2015.[5] He was a candidate for the mayorship in Bingöl in the local elections of March 2019, but was not elected.[6]

Since the 30 May 2016 he is a member of the group of the European United Left–Nordic Green Left (GUE/NGL) in the PACE and in January 2019 he became the vice president of the GUE/NGL.[7]

He is a member of the board of the Progressive Alliance since November 2019.[8]

References
  1. "The end of democracy in Turkey?". Hertie School. Retrieved 2020-10-10.
  2. "Dissertation presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Texas at Austin in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy The University of Texas at Austin May, 2010" (PDF).
  3. Ross, Jeniffer (January 2013). "Teaching and Learning: The Yin and Yang of Lifelong Learning" (PDF). University of Michigan. Retrieved 10 October 2020.
  4. Şafak, Yeni (2020-10-10). "Bingöl Seçim Sonuçları 2015 - Genel Seçim 2015". Yeni Şafak (in Turkish). Retrieved 2020-10-10.
  5. Şafak, Yeni (2020-10-10). "Bingöl Seçim Sonuçları 2015 - Genel Seçim Kasım 2015". Yeni Şafak (in Turkish). Retrieved 2020-10-10.
  6. Gazetesi, Evrensel. "Bingöl | 31 Mart 2019 yerel seçim sonuçları". Evrensel.net (in Turkish). Retrieved 2020-10-10.
  7. "Mr Hişyar Özsoy". European Assembly of the Council of Europe. Retrieved 10 October 2020.
  8. "Board of the Progressive Alliance". Progressive Alliance. Retrieved 2020-10-10.
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