Cengiz Çandar
Cengiz Çandar | |
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Çandar at the Halifax International Security Forum in 2012 | |
| Member of the Grand National Assembly | |
| Assumed office 2 June 2023 | |
| Constituency | Diyarbakır (2023) |
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| Born | 1948 (age 77–78) Ankara, Turkey |
| Party | Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party |
| Education | Talas American College Tarsus American College |
| Alma mater | Faculty of Political Science, Ankara University (BA) |
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Cengiz Çandar (born 1948) is a Turkish politician, journalist, senior columnist, and a Middle East expert. He is elected to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey (TBMM) in May 2023, as Deputy of Diyarbakır from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party). He is the second eldest serving member of the parliament. Member of EU Harmony Commission of the TBMM and Türkiye-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly and Asian Parliamentarians Assembly representing the TBMM.
He is the author of Turkey's Neo-Ottomanist Moment: A Eurasianist Odyssey (Policy Series) (2021); Turkey's Mission Impossible: War and Peace with the Kurds (2020) and Mesopotamia Express: A Journey in History (Turkish: Mezopotamya Ekspresi: Bir Tarih Yolculuğu) (2012), which has been translated into various languages, including Sorani Kurdish and Arabic.