Aichan_Kara_Giousouf

Aichan Kara Giousouf

Aichan Kara Giousouf

Greek politician

Aichan Kara Giousouf (Greek: Αϊχάν Καρά Γιουσούφ, Turkish: Ayhan Kara Yusuf, born on 12 August 1963 in Yahyabeyli/Amaranta, Komotini, Greece) is a Greek politician from the West Thracian Turkish minority.

Born in a peasants family, he graduated in 1988 at the faculty of dentistry of the University of Istanbul, then worked for two years in Germany before coming back in Greece for the military service. In 1995, he served as secretary general of the Western Thrace Minority University Graduates Association, and between 1996 and 1999 as member of the board of the Dentists Association of Rhodope.[1]

He became a member of Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) in 1994, and entered the Maroneia-Sapes municipal council. He was elected to the Greek Parliament for SYRIZA in the May 2012 Greek legislative election.[1] He is atheist and in 2015 took the civilian oath as new member of the Greek Parliament.[2][3]

Sources

  1. [1]
    Ayhan Karayusuf: "Sorgulayan, yargılayan ve cezalandıran bir toplum olmamız lazım, teslimiyetçi olmamamız gerekir." Archived 2015-02-21 at the Wayback Machine, Birlik Gazetesi, 20 March 2012
  2. [2]
    "Οι μισαλλόδοξοι οπαδοί του Τζιτζικώστα", Εφημερίδα των Συντακτών, 20.10.2015 In Greek language.
  3. [3]
    "Ορκίστηκε η νέα Βουλή", 05 February 2015. In Greek language
Stub icon

This article about a Greek politician is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Aichan_Kara_Giousouf, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.