Ufuk Uras
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Mehmet Ufuk Uras (Script error: No such module "IPA".; born 4 January 1959, in Üsküdar, Istanbul, Turkey) is a Turkish politician and economist.
Biography and political career
Uras graduated from the Faculty of Economics of Istanbul University and began working as an academician at the same institution. A former leader of the now-defunct University Lecturers' Union (Öğretim Elemanları Sendikası), he was elected the chairman of Freedom and Solidarity Party (ÖDP) in 1996. Uras resigned from the leadership after the 2002 general election. He became the party chairman again in 2007.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
2007 elections and after
Uras ran a successful campaign as an independent and a "common candidate of the Left" within the Thousand Hopes alliance,[1] backed by Kurdish-based Democratic Society Party and several left-wing, environmentalist and pro-peace groups in the 2007 general election, polling 81,486 votes, which is approximately 4 per cent of the vote in his constituency.[2] After having elected as an independent to the parliament he rejoined the ÖDP.[1]
He was removed from his post as the ÖDP party leader in 2009, when his opponent Hayri Kozanoğlu was elected. He resigned from the Freedom and Solidarity Party on 19 June 2009.[3]
After the Democratic Society Party was dissolved in December 2009 and two of its MPs were banned from politics for five years, he joined forces with the remaining Kurdish MPs in the Peace and Democracy Party group, giving them the twenty seats necessary to retain their position as a parliamentary party. [4]
Post-parliamentarian political life
Uras did not run in the 2011 general election. On 25 November 2012, he became a co-founder and member of Greens and the Left Party of the Future, founded as a merger of the Greens and the Equality and Democracy Party.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
The Greens and Left Party backed the Kurdish-led Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) in the 2015 elections. Uras called for the HDP to move closer to Syriza as a political party model, with a more libertarian perspective.[5]
Personal life
Uras is married to ballet dancer and choreographer Zeynep Tanbay.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Uras has a son named Deniz from a former marriage.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Books
- ÖDP Söyleşileri, 1999, Istanbul: Alan. Template:ISBN
- Başka Bir Siyaset Mümkün, 2003, Istanbul: İthaki. Template:ISBN
- İdeolojilerin Sonu mu?, 2004, Istanbul: Çiviyazıları. Template:ISBN
- Sezgiciliğin Sonu mu?, 2005, Istanbul: Devin. Template:ISBN
- Siyaset Yazıları, 2005, Istanbul: Alan. Template:ISBN
- Alternatif Siyaset Arayışları, 2005, Istanbul: İthaki. Template:ISBN
- "Kurtuluş Savaşı'nda Sol", 2007, İstanbul: Altın Kitaplar. Template:ISBN
- "Sokaktan Parlamentoya Özgürlükçü Siyaset İçin Notlar", 2008, İstanbul: Su Yayınları. Template:ISBN
- "Söz Meclisten Dışarı", 2010, Ankara: Penta Yayınları. Template:ISBN
- "Meclis Notları", 2013, İstanbul: Pencere Yayınları. Template:ISBN
- "Velhasıl",2018, İstanbul, Doğan Kitap.
References
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- 1959 births
- Living people
- People from Üsküdar
- Istanbul University alumni
- Academic staff of Istanbul University
- Turkish economists
- Turkish non-fiction writers
- Kadıköy Anadolu Lisesi alumni
- Democratic Regions Party politicians
- Deputies of Istanbul
- Leaders of political parties in Turkey
- Members of the 23rd Parliament of Turkey