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Behçet Yıldırım

Turkish statesperson (born 1959)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ20988564 ↗
Source-derived summary

Behçet Yıldırım (born 10 May 1959) is a Turkish politician from the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), who has served as a Member of Parliament for Adıyaman.

Born in Adıyaman, he graduated from Çukurova University Faculty of Medicine and worked at an Adıyaman hospital for maternity and children. He was a member of the Human Rights Foundation and served as the Democratic Society Congress delegate for Adıyaman. He was elected as a Member of Parliament in the June 2015 general election, and re-elected in November 2015 general election.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1959, 2015—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1959-05-10. For this dossier, Behçet, Yıldırım and Turkish is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Behçet Yıldırım” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.