Giran Ozcan on the History, Politics and Oppression of the HDP in Turkey

Giran Ozcan, Representative of the People’s Democratic Party in Turkey (HDP) in Washington, D.C. gives a brief talk on the history, politics and ongoing oppression of the HDP, including the most recent attempt by the Turkish government to close it.

Giran Ozcan is the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Representative to the United States of America. After graduating from the University of Warwick with a sociology degree, he worked at the Centre for Turkey Studies in London between 2011 and 2016. He was a founding editor at The Region, an online news outlet covering the Middle East. He has been working with the HDP in its overseas representative offices since 2016 and was appointed to be its US representative in September 2017.