Politician Dengir Mir Mehmet Fırat Loses His Life

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Former Vice Chair of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and former Mersin MP of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Dengir Mir Mehmet Fırat has lost his life at Ankara Bayındır Hospital, where he had been receiving treatment for lung cancer for six weeks.

Losing his life at the age of 76, Fırat's deceased body will be put to rest in Karşıyaka graveyard in Ankara after the funeral prayer was performed at Ankara Ahmet Hamdi Akseki Mosque.

About Dengir Mir Mehmet Fırat

Born in Adıyaman in 1943, Dengir Mir Mehmet Fırat graduated from the Faculty of Law of Ankara University. Co-founding the AKP, he served as the member of its Central Executive Committee, Central Decision and Executive Committee and the Vice Chair of the party.

He resigned from the AKP in November 2008. In Parliamentary elections in 2005, he was elected the Mersin MP of the HDP.

In the 21st term of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey (TBMM), he was a member of the Parliament's Committee on Justice and Committee on Planning and Budget. In the 21st and 22nd terms, he also served as the Chair of Tunisia Friendship Group. (HA/SD)