Zülküf Uçar (1982, Van, Turkey) is a lawyer, President of the Van Bar Association and a politician of the Green Left Party (YSP).[1] In May 2023, he was elected to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey.
Personal life and education
Zülküf Uçar was born in Van, where he also attended primary and high school.[1] Uçar then enrolled into the Dokuz Eylül University in Izmir to study law.[1] Following his graduation, he worked as a lawyer in Van from 2007.[1] He is married since 2017.[2]
Professional career
As a lawyer he was involved in cases dealing with human rights violations and torture.[3] He became a member of the board of the Van Bar Association in 2012 and between 2018 and 2022 he was its president.[4] As the president of the Van Bar Association he refused to attend a ceremony marking the beginning of a new judicial year in the Presidential Palace in 2019, together with the majority of the lawyers in Turkey[5] and took part in the march of lawyers against a change of the electoral system in Bar Associations in June 2020.[6] In October 2021, he defended the right of manifestation and opposed the ban on manifestations imposed after the failed attempted coup d'état in 2016.[7] In the parliamentary elections of May 2023, he was elected to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, representing Van for the YSP.[8]
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