11 Facts About Pervin Buldan

Pervin Buldan was born on 6 November 1967 and is a Kurdish politician from Turkey.

Pervin Buldan was a member of the Democratic Society Party.

Pervin Buldan was President of Yakay-Der and one of the deputy speakers in the 26th Parliament of Turkey.

Pervin Buldan was born in Hakkari Province in 1967, where she grew up and went to school.

Pervin Buldan graduated from high school and started work as an official in the local government administration department.

The couple moved to Istanbul in 1990, where Pervin Buldan was a full-time housewife.

Pervin Buldan was accused of being a drug dealer and PKK financier by the Turkish National Intelligence Organization.

Later Pervin Buldan appealed to the European Court of Human Rights which ruled in favor of Buldan and acknowledged there was a violation of Art.

Pervin Buldan has described how every week they would hold sit-down demonstrations at the Galatasaray Square to "ask for the people that have disappeared", to the state to talk about the "reality of the disappeared".

Pervin Buldan was re-elected for a second term in the 12 June 2011 general election.

Pervin Buldan opposes the so-called one-man rule by the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and is in favor of education in the Kurdish language.