‘Erdoğan wants elections in November’
The words in the headline were uttered by Celal Doğan after his visit to Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan last week.
Doğan is a Gaziantep deputy for the Kurdish problem-focused Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP). His name is synonymous with Gaziantep, the industrial Turkish city near the border with Syria. His first entry to parliament came in 1977 as a 34-year-old MP from the social democratic Republican People’s Party (CHP). He later served for years as the mayor of Gaziantep and even the chairman of the Gaziantepspor football club. Indeed, he is a beloved person in his constituency.
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