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Ms Zeynep YILDIZ (Türkiye, NR)

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Representative
Deputy
AK Party

Türkiye Büyük Millet Meclisi (TBMM)
TR - 06543 - ANKARA
Türkiye

Working language: English

Declarations of interests:
2024 , 2023 , 2022 , 2021 , 2020

Mandates

In the political groups

  • Member: Members not belonging to a Political Group since 01/07/2019
  • Member: Free Democrats Group from 08/10/2018 to 30/06/2019

In the Assembly

  • since 09/10/2023 Representative - Türkiye
  • from 08/10/2018 to 08/10/2023 Substitute - Türkiye

In the committee(s) and sub-committee(s)

  • Full Member: Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (since 09/10/2023)
  • Full Member: Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media (since 09/10/2023)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Media and Information Society (since 12/10/2023)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Human Rights (since 09/10/2023)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights (since 09/10/2023)
  • Alternate of Ms Sena Nur ÇELİK KANAT (Full Member): Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy (since 09/10/2023)
  • Alternate of Mr Abdurrahman BABACAN (Full Member): Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons (since 09/10/2023)
  • Alternate of Mr Mehmet Mehdi EKER (Full Member): Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media (from 24/01/2022 to 08/10/2023)
  • Alternate of Mr Yıldırım Tuğrul TÜRKEŞ (Full Member): Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy (from 30/09/2019 to 14/09/2020)
  • Alternate of Mr Yıldırım Tuğrul TÜRKEŞ (Full Member): Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons (from 30/09/2019 to 14/09/2020)
  • Alternate of Mr Yıldırım Tuğrul TÜRKEŞ (Full Member): Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons (from 24/01/2022 to 08/10/2023)

Interventions

Last speeches

04/10/2024 | 11:08:08 Thank you, Chair. Dear colleagues, I will be talking about the preservation of co-existence in Europe. And the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe serves as a platform for enhancing democracy, for protecting human rights, and also for understanding how others perceive the world and how our countries are perceived by others. As we depart from here, I think it's essential that each of us leaves with this, with a sense of duty that we should have some homework to do. In addition to... 03/10/2024 | 18:28:19 Thank you, Mister Chair. Dear colleagues, Firstly, I would like to extend my sincere gratitude to Mr Simon MOUTQUIN for highlighting such an important issue through his report and also his stance right next to Palestine during his membership of PACE. The classification of positive and negative rights provides a normative framework to determine the moral obligations of societies and governments regarding the right to food. Article 3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights asserts... 01/10/2024 | 19:37:03 Thank you, Chair. Dear colleagues, Ms Ayşenur Ezgi EYGI, a 26-year-old Turkish-American human rights defender, was deliberately targeted and murdered by Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) recently in Nablus, the West Bank, during a peaceful protest against illegal Zionist settlers, just like Ms Rachel CORRIE. If such a protest had even been obstructed in any full or observer member state of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), it would have sparked discussions about the right... 01/10/2024 | 18:22:15 Dear Chair, dear colleagues, The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) faces two fundamental risks. One is being confined to continentality and the second is disregarding equal treatment among its member states. The Council of Europe was established with the aim “to achieve a greater unity between its members”, as envisioned in the founding statute of the Council. You may remember that when Karabakh was under Armenian occupation, we made numerous speeches affirming that... 18/04/2024 | 19:13:37 Dear Chair, Dear colleagues, The Council of Europe, under the umbrella of which we are, was established after the bloodiest war the world has ever seen, for the purposes of "realisation of human rights and fundamental freedoms", as foreseen in Article 1 of the founding Statute. Beyond the continental reservations, acting in accordance with our founding purposes, taking an initiative for the resolution of conflicts and preserving world peace, is the only reason for functionalising this...

Activities