... Erol Dora, Syriac lawyer and member of Mezoder (an İstanbul-based organization with the aim of introducing Syriac identity and culture, founded in 2004), İstanbul, 8 November 2008, personal interview. 31. Yusuf Beğtas, general secretary ...
... Erol Dora. In the history of the new Turkish state, for the first time, a Christian deputy has entered the Parliament of Turkey. This has happened with the votes of the Kurds. Not in Istanbul or Ankara, but in the predominantly Kurdish ...
... Erol Dora. There is no complete agreement or liberal rational consensus within this coalition but celebrating the conflicts. Agonistic pluralism means there is no attempt at the ultimate reconciliation of these political antagonisms ...
... Erol Dora, a Syriac from Mardin, was voted into parliament since the introduction of multi-party elections in 1946.26 While these individual acts have done much to garner positive media attention and stimulate debate, the reform drive ...
... Erol DORA became the first Christian to be elected to the assembly since 1960. In March 2012 a controversial new education law ended prohibitions on attendance at single-sex Islamic schools by youths under 15. The new measure prompted ...
... Erol Dora, who is the first Christian MP in the Turkish parliament after 60 years, and the female BDP politician Februniye Akyol, who became Mardin's vice-mayor in 2014, which is the first time in Turkish history LIKE A DROPIN THE OCEAN ...
... Erol Dora, became the first Syriac Christian ever elected to parliament, and the first Christian since an Arme- nian was elected in 1955, perhaps reflective of Erdogan's warming relations with Turkish religious minorities. Statistics ...
... Erol Dora (BDP). This is something that would have been totally unthinkable 20 years ago. 9. Final remarks: international action and follow-up Several European countries have come into action for the protection of the Monastery of Mor ...
... Erol DORA became the first Christian to be elected to the assembly since 1960. In March 2012 a controversial new education law ended prohibitions on attendance at singlesex Islamic schools by youths under 15. The new measure prompted ...
... Erol Dora, reelected in November 2015 and the first ever ethnic Assyrian Turkish MP. The Syriac community is also—significantly— represented by a joint mayor, Februniye Akyol, who shares power in the city of Mardin with a Kurdish mayor ...