Hişyar Özsoy
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Hişyar Özsoy | |
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| Member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey | |
| In office June 2015 – November 2015 | |
| Constituency | Bingöl |
| In office November 2015 – June 2018 | |
| Constituency | Bingöl |
| Member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe | |
| Assumed office 27 November 2015 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 26 June 1977 |
| Citizenship | Turkish |
| Party | HDP |
| Alma mater | University of Texas Austin |
| Occupation | Lecturer, political scientist, politician |
Hişyar Özsoy, (born 26 June 1977, Yeniköy, Bingöl) is a Turkish politician and academic of Kurdish descent. He is a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP)
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]
Political career
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]