Aykan Erdemir

Quick Facts

Full Name	Aykan Erdemir
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Jul 28, 1974(1974-07-28)
Age	50
Birthplace	Bursa
Country	Turkey
Birth City	Bursa Province
Horoscope	Cancer

Aykan Erdemir Biography

Aykan Erdemir is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on July 28, 1974 in Bursa, Bursa Province, Turkey. Aykan Erdemir (born July 28 1974, in Bursa) is an ethnologist and policy analyst and an ex- Turkish politician. He was a member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey between 2011 between 2011 and 2015 as a delegate from the secular- friendly Republican People’s Party. He has been a vocal advocate for freedom of religion and the separation of mosque and state, and the rights of minorities across all of the Middle East and beyond, Erdemir has been a prominent voice in the fight against extremist Islam as well as violent extremism and an outspoken critic of the discrimination against religious minorities across and around the Middle East.

In the parliament, Erdemir’s initial legislative action was to propose an motion calling for the creation of the Ad-Hoc Parliamentary Committee on Hate Crimes. Later, he urged for the Turkish government to develop an exhaustive law against hate crimes and warned to the public that “the issue cannot be reduced to Islamophobia” and also criticized the absence of a formal mechanism to monitor and investigate hatred crimes within Turkey. Then, in December of 2012 in conjunction together with the umbrella organization Hate Crimes Law Campaign Platform the president came up with a comprehensive hate crime bill that was later included in the Turkish government’s hate crimes law that was passed in June 2014. Erdemir has been critical of the bill’s government as an ineffective law that recognizes the existence of hate crimes, however it fails to provide actual security measures.

In November 2014, Junior Chamber International chose Erdemir as “Turkey’s most outstanding young person in the field of politics, law and public administration” for his efforts in “fighting against discrimination and hate crimes and his bid to contribute to the development of governance and democracy in Turkey.”

Erdemir has been one of the most outspoken critics of antisemitism in Turkey. In September 2014, at a press conference he held at the Turkish Parliament to mark Rosh Hashanah, citing a recent study by the Anti-Defamation League, he warned that “Turkey tops Iran in antisemitism league.” The next month, he filed a motion to set up an Ad-Hoc Parliamentary Committee on Antisemitism to look into discrimination, hate speech, and hate crimes targeting Turkey’s Jewish community, a first in the history of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. In November 2013, at the height of the Turkey-Israel flotilla crisis, Erdemir traveled to Israel to attend a conference at Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Truman Institute for Peace to promote Turkish-Israeli rapprochement, and stated that “politicians can give you many reasons why this can’t happen, but it takes a statesman to build peace.” In an op-ed he later penned for The Times of Israel, he warned that “real rapprochement with Israel requires Turkey to tackle antisemitism.”

Erdemir was elected to politics in the month of May, 2010 to help the candidature of Kemal Kilicdaroglu to be the next leader of the Republican People’s Party. At the fifteenth Republican People’s Party Extraordinary Convention, Erdemir was elected to the 80-seat Party Council. In the general elections at the age of 36 Erdemir got elected into the Grand National Assembly of Turkey as one of the youngest legislators of his group. In the parliament, he was a member as a member of the Joint Parliamentary Committee between Turkey and EU, European Union Harmonization Committee and the Ad-Hoc Committee on the IT Sector as well as the Internet and was also the secretary of the Caucus Turkey-Sweden. Apart from being the representative for his district of Bursa, Erdemir also served as a member of the lawmaking team on volunteer basis for Batman the city that lies close to the Syrian border, which has a majority of Kurdish and Arab residents.

Aykan Erdemir Net Worth

Aykan Erdemir is one of the richest Politician from Turkey. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Aykan Erdemir 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Erdemir was a professor in the Middle Eastern Technical University’s Department of Sociology (2004-2011) as well as the Bilkent University’s Department of Political Science and Public Administration (2015-2016). From 2005 to 2010, he was as the Vice Dean for the Graduate School of Social Science at Middle East Technical University.

Erdemir’s legislative efforts from 2011 to 2015 focused on freedom of religious or beliefs and minorities’ rights, discrimination, hate crimes and hate speech.

Erdemir has also been an outspoken defender of Turkey’s Christian minorities. In December 2013, through a parliamentary inquiry, he exposed the restrictions imposed by Turkey’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism on worship at historical churches. In May 2014, he exposed that the Turkish Parliament had been blocking access to Diyarbakır Protestant Church by classifying it as a “pornographic website.” He called the ban “humiliating, embarrassing, and defaming,” and succeeded in revoking the ban after raising the issue with the Speaker of the Turkish Parliament Cemil Çiçek, a development he referred to as “a small step for internet freedoms in Turkey, but a big step for internet freedom in the Parliament.” Erdemir later visited the Ahmet Güvener, the pastor of the Diyarbakır Protestant Church, ahead of Sunday service to offer apologies to him and his flock on behalf of the Turkish Parliament. In June 2013, Erdemir prepared a draft bill to lift the ban on Greek language instruction for the Eastern Orthodox Christian minority residing on the islands of Imbros and Tenedos. He also supported Turkey’s Armenian community by attending the Easter liturgy at Diyarbakır’s St. Giragos Armenia Church and the first baptism in a century at Van’s Cathedral of the Holy Cross on the Akdamar Island.

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On April 27, 2016, Norwegian human rights and religious freedom organization Stefanus Alliance International awarded Erdemir the Stefanus Prize for his outstanding contributions to defending freedom of religion or belief as defined by the Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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Aykan Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Turkey. Aykan Erdemir celebrates birthday on July 28 of every year.

Erdemir is one of the founders and former steering committee members of the International Panel of Parliamentarians for Freedom of Religion or Belief (IPPFoRB), the first multi-faith and bipartisan global network of parliamentarians committed to combating religious persecution and advancing freedom of religion or belief, as defined by Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. At the initiative’s New York summit held along the sidelines of the 70th General Assembly of the United Nations, Erdemir stated that IPPFoRB is an “idea for which the time is right,” adding that people advocating rights should be as “outspoken, organised and transnational” as the violent extremists.