Istanbul Provincial Chairperson Canan Kaftancıoğlu was sentenced to 3 years 4 months and 11 days in prison after the 20rd Chamber of the Supreme Court of Appeals approved three of the five separate charges, and Kaftancıoğlu was banned from politics.
It is being discussed whether Kaftancıoğlu will continue to be the provincial chairman and whether he will become a member of parliament in the future, as the Supreme Court of Appeals also upheld the penalty, which stipulates that the local court imposes "restriction on being a party leader" according to Article 53 of the Turkish Penal Code.
The prominent trend in the CHP, which argues that the political ban decision is controversial and unclear how it will be implemented, is for Kaftancıoğlu to "de facto" maintain the provincial presidency.
CHP Leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu will also clarify the strategy they will follow at the Central Executive Board meeting that will convene extraordinarily this morning.
Who is Canan Kaftancıoğlu, how old is she and where is she from?
Canan Kaftancıoğlu (born February 3, 1972, Mesudiye, Ordu) is a Turkish physician and politician. Istanbul Provincial Chairman of the Republican People's Party.
On May 12, 2022, Canan Kaftancıoğlu was sentenced to 4 years, 11 months and 20 days in prison by the Supreme Court and a political ban was imposed on her.
He was born in Çiftlik Sarıca village, Mesudiye district of Ordu, as the second child of a primary school teacher father and a housewife mother. After completing his primary, secondary and high school education in Ordu, he graduated from Istanbul Medical Faculty in 1995. He started his specialization in the department of Forensic Medicine at the university he graduated from in 1997 and in 2000 he made a case study at the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey.Forensic Medical Evaluation of Torture CasesHe completed his specialization with the thesis and became a Forensic Medicine Doctor (Forensic Physician). He met his colleague Ali Naki Kaftancıoğlu while he was working as an emergency physician at Sivas Suşehri State Hospital before specialization. and married in 2001.
He was among the founders of the Social Memory Platform. He committed the unsolved murders "My Father Was A HeroThere is a compilation book named ”. He is on the organizing committee of the Ümit Kaftancıoğlu Story Contest.He is a member of the Executive Committee of the United June Movement.
Between 2011 and 2012, he served as the Provincial Vice President responsible for the press, culture and communication of the Republican People's Party Istanbul, and as the Deputy Provincial Chairman between 2012-2014. He became a Maltepe Mayor candidate in the 2014 Elections. He was elected as the Istanbul Provincial President at the CHP Istanbul 13th Ordinary Provincial Congress held on January 2018, 36.
Imprisonment and political ban
On May 12, 2022, Canan Kaftancıoğlu was sentenced to 4 years 11 months and 20 days in prison by the Court of Cassation on charges of "insulting a public official because of her duty", "publicly insulting the State of the Republic of Turkey" and "insulting the President" due to her social media posts. was brought. After the decision, CHP Chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu called all the deputies of his party to the CHP Istanbul Provincial Presidency on his social media account. After his statement, Kılıçdaroğlu set out for the Istanbul Provincial Presidency and gave a speech in front of the Istanbul Provincial Presidency.
After he became CHP Istanbul Provincial Chairman, an investigation was launched against him because of his social media posts.
After commemorating Atatürk as “Gazi Mustafa Kemal” in his speech at the Taksim Meetings held via video conference on September 9, Uluç Gürkan, the former Deputy Speaker of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, asked, “Do you prefer not to use the name Atatürk?” “When I talk about people's names, I am against certain habits and categorizing them with special references. I prefer to express it this way, as I have used it for years, because it is an expression that I feel belonged to.” He gave the answer and caused controversy within the party.
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