İdris Baluken
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Çağlar Demirel (2015- )
İdris Baluken | |
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.jpg) İdris Baluken | |
| Parliamentary group leader of the Peoples' Democratic Party | |
| In office 28 April 2014 – 4 November 2016 | |
| Leader | Selahattin Demirtaş Figen Yüksekdağ |
| Serving with | Pervin Buldan (2014-15) Çağlar Demirel (2015- ) |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Parliamentary group leader of the Peace and Democracy Party | |
| In office 22 July 2012 – 28 April 2014 | |
| Leader | Selahattin Demirtaş |
| Serving with | Pervin Buldan |
| Preceded by | Hasip Kaplan |
| Succeeded by | Position abolished |
| Member of the Grand National Assembly | |
| In office 12 June 2011 – 7 July 2018 | |
| Constituency | Bingöl (2011) Diyarbakır (June 2015, Nov 2015) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 2 July 1976 |
| Party | Peoples' Democratic Party (2014- ) Peace and Democracy Party (2011-14) |
| Spouse | Evrim Baluken |
| Education | Medicine |
| Alma mater | Ankara University |
İdris Baluken (born 2 July 1976) is a Kurdish politician who currently serves as a parliamentary group leader of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) since April 2014. He previously served as a parliamentary group leader for the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) from 2012 until the party's MPs joined the HDP in April 2014.
He has been a Member of Parliament for the electoral district of Diyarbakır since the June 2015 general election, having previously served as an MP for Bingöl from 2011 to 2015. Initially elected as an Independent in 2011 as a means of bypassing the 10% election threshold, Baluken and the other pro-Kurdish Independents that were elected in the election formed the BDP parliamentary group shortly after.
İdris Baluken was born on 2 July 1976 in Bingöl and graduated from Ankara University Faculty of Medicine. He specialised in pulmonary diseases and Tuberculosis in the Pulmonary Research and Education hospital in Heybeliada, Istanbul. He worked in a dispensary, a state hospital in Bingöl and at the Diyarbakır pulmonary diseases hospital as a surgeon. He has been involved in the administration of the Turkish Thoracic Society, the Turkish Medical Association and the Health and Social Service Workers Union Diyarbakır branch. He is married and has two children.[1]
Political career
Peace and Democracy Party
Baluken was fielded as an Independent candidate in the electoral district of Bingöl by the Labour, Democracy and Freedom Bloc for the 2011 general election. As a member of the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP), Baluken and several other pro-Kurdish or left-wing politicians fielded as independent candidates within the Labour, Democracy and Freedom Bloc in a joint effort to bypass the 10% election threshold that would be required had the BDP contested the election as a party. He was appointed as a parliamentary group leader of the BDP by leader Selahattin Demirtaş on 22 July 2012 after Hasip Kaplan was removed from the post.[2]
