Hişyar Özsoy

Özsoy graduated with a bachelor's degree in sociology from Boğaziçi University in 2002^[1] and earned a master's degree in 2004 and a Ph.D in Political Anthropology 2010, both from the University of Texas in Austin.^[2][1] From 2011 onwards he lectured at the University of Michigan. Özsoy is experienced in pedagogics and in 2012 he was chosen as a lecturer in the Thompson Center for learning and teaching of the University of Michigan.^[3]

Özsoy began his political career working as a coordinator of foreign relations and a political consultant for the municipality in Diyarbakır between 2005 and 2008.^[1] He was elected as member of Grand National Assembly of Turkey in the parliamentary elections of June 2015 for Bingöl representing the HDP,^[4] and re-elected in the snap election in November 2015.^[5] He was a candidate for the mayorship in Bingöl in the local elections of March 2019, but was not elected.^[6] Özsoy has been elected into several international bodies. Since 2015 he is a member of the parliamentary group of the Organization for Security and Co-Operation in Europe (OSCE).^[7]

Since November 27, 2015 has been a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), since May 30, 2016 member of the United Left of Europe - Nordic Green Left (GUE/NGL) group and on January 21, 2019 he became the vice president of the GUE/NGL.^[8] In 2018 he was sent to the Parliamentary Assembly of the NATO.^[9] Additionally, Özsoy is a member of the board of the Progressive Alliance since November 2019.^[10]