Erol Dora
- January 10, 2024
- Lawyer
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Erol Dora Biography
| Name | Erol Dora |
| Birthday | Feb 2 |
| Birth Year | 1964 |
| Place Of Birth | Silopi |
| Home Town | Şırnak |
| Birth Country | Turkey |
| Birth Sign | Aquarius |
Erol Dora is one of the most popular and richest Lawyer who was born on February 2, 1964 in Silopi, Şırnak, Turkey. Dora was born in 1964 in the family of Enver and Kespu Dora the Syriac Orthodox family in the small, all-Christian town of Hassana the most eastern settlement within the Tur Abdin. This diverse ethnic region close to the border between Syria as well as Iraq is the ancestral homeland for Syriac Orthodox. Syriac Orthodox community in Turkey who speak different varieties that is part of its Aramaic language. In the 1990s and 1980s the majority of them left into Istanbul and Western Europe, after the Turkish military forcefully “evacuated” and effectively depopulated thousands of villages. Hassana which is the place where Dora spent his childhood was one of the villages that were abandoned in the 1990s.
After finishing studying, Dora returned to Istanbul practicing as a lawyer, frequently defending Christians during trials. He was an original member and vice-president of the first association of the Assyrians/Syriacs following the coup in 1980 The Mesopotamia Culture and Solidarity Association (Mezopotamya Kultur ve Dayanisma dernegi (also known as MEZODER).
In the 2011 general election, Dora became an independent candidate for the Labour, Democracy and Freedom Bloc. He was elected in the Mardin constituency to become the first Aramean member of the Grand National Assembly ever, and the first Christian MP since 1960. Though affiliated with the pro-minority Peace and Democracy Party (BDP), he told the Vatican Insider that he joined Parliament “as a free man” and wouldn’t answer to any party. In late 2013, Dora however became one of the forerunner MPs to support the formation of the new Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), which he later joined.
In the 2011 general election Dora became the first ethnic Aramean member of the Turkish Parliament, and the first Christian MP since 1960. Since 2014 a member of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), he was reelected in the consecutive June and November 2015 elections.
In the wake of the PKK’s unilateral ceasefire Dora was awed by what he described as the “atmosphere of peace” that was instrumental in enticing Arameans to contemplate the possibility of returning home to their Southern Anatolian home. The year 2011 was a different story. Dora maintained that: “Europe has the impression that Turkey is moving towards Islam and that it is a country that is becoming less secular. But as far as I am concerned, there isn’t much of a difference between the past and the present, the situation is more or less the same and one of the things that has changed for the better is in fact the situation for Christians.”
Erol Dora Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Lawyer |
| House | Living in own house. |
Erol Dora is one of the richest Lawyer from Turkey. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Erol Dora 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Erol Dora (born on February 2, 1964, in Hassana close to Silopi) is a lawyer and a parliamentary politician of Turkey. An ethnic Aramean minority of Turkey Erol Dora is a well-known advocate of minority rights, specifically the human rights status of Turkey’s Christian minority.
In a statement that there was “no rule of law in the region, only the rule of force,” the scholarly commission was proposed to settle the land claims that belong to Syriac as well as Yezidi minorities. The majority of them had left in the 1980s, when there was a “low-density war” thousands of Kurdish and Aramean villages were forcefully “evacuated” and effectively depopulated with the villager population being left as refugees on their own homelands.
In the issue of history school books denigrating Armenians and Syriac Christians, Dora however acknowledged that hostile phrasings appeared there only relatively recently. The textbooks were found to distort historical information portraiting the Christian minorities as traitors, supposedly to help justify the genocides against Christians in the outgoing Ottoman Empire. To discuss the issue originally raised by fourteen Syriac civil and religious organizations, Dora met education minister Ömer Dinçer on 15 December 2011 and raised the issue in parliament. Eventually the ministry promised the revision of a particularly problematic textbook, which however turned into the opposite, as the revised version of the textbook doesn’t only portray Arameans as traitors in the past, but now also claims that even today’s Arameans continued their betrayal of Turkey.
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