Abdullah Demirbaş

Abdullah Demirbaş (born 1966, Sise, Diyarbakir, Turkey) was the former mayor of the municipality of Sur in the city of Diyarbakir, of the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP). After graduating in sociology at Firat University in Elazig, Abdullah Demirbas worked as a philosophy teacher from 1987 to 2007, contributing to setting up the Mardin Branch of the Turkish Union of Teachers. In the local elections of March 2009, he was re-elected with a stronger majority. However, the prosecutions against him continued and in May 2009 he was sentenced to 2 years in jail for language crimes.

Abdullah Demirbaş

Abdullah Demirbaş (born 1966, Sise, Diyarbakir, Turkey) was the former mayor of the municipality of Sur in the city of Diyarbakir, of the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP). After graduating in sociology at Firat University in Elazig, Abdullah Demirbas worked as a philosophy teacher from 1987 to 2007, contributing to setting up the Mardin Branch of the Turkish Union of Teachers. In the local elections of March 2009, he was re-elected with a stronger majority. However, the prosecutions against him continued and in May 2009 he was sentenced to 2 years in jail for language crimes.