constituency birth_place imagesize profession party office birth_date term_start article_title name occupation alma_mater
adıyaman -lrb- 2011 , june 2015 -rrb- adıyaman , turkey 220 px medical doctor republican and development party -lrb- akp -rrb- 2013-present people 's party -lrb- chp -rrb- 2011-2013 justice member of the grand national assembly 01 january 1960 12 june 2011 salih fırat
 salih fırat politician ankara university
salih fırat

salih fırat -lrb- born 1 january 1960 -rrb- is a turkish politician of kurdish origin from the justice and development party -lrb- akp -rrb- , who has served as a member of parliament for adıyaman since 12 june 2011 .
born in adıyaman , he graduated from ankara university faculty of medicine and worked in hospitals in izmir , ordu and adıyaman as an expert on orthopedics and traumatology .
he was also a member of the adıyaman sports club executive board and was the club 's doctor .
he is a member of the human rights foundation .
first elected as a chp member of parliament in the 2011 general election , he resigned from the chp and joined the akp in 2013 after accusing chp politicians of making racist remarks against kurds .
he was re-elected as an mp , this time from the akp party list , in the june 2015 general election .
