Zülküf Uçar (1982, Van, Turkey) is a lawyer, President of the Van Bar Association and a politician of the Green Left Party (YSP). [1] In May 2023, he was elected to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey.
Zülküf Uçar was born in Van, where he also attended primary and high school. [1] Uçar then enrolled into the Dokuz Eylül University in Izmir to study law. [1] Following his graduation, he worked as a lawyer in Van from 2007. [1] He is married since 2017. [2]
As a lawyer he was involved in cases dealing with human rights violations and torture. [3] He became a member of the board of the Van Bar Association in 2012 and between 2018 and 2022 he was its president. [4] As the president of the Van Bar Association he refused to attend a ceremony marking the beginning of a new judicial year in the Presidential Palace in 2019, together with the majority of the lawyers in Turkey [5] and took part in the march of lawyers against a change of the electoral system in Bar Associations in June 2020. [6] In October 2021, he defended the right of manifestation and opposed the ban on manifestations imposed after the failed attempted coup d'état in 2016. [7] In the parliamentary elections of May 2023, he was elected to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, representing Van for the YSP. [8]
Zülküf Uçar (1982, Van, Turkey) is a lawyer, President of the Van Bar Association and a politician of the Green Left Party (YSP). [1] In May 2023, he was elected to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey.
Zülküf Uçar was born in Van, where he also attended primary and high school. [1] Uçar then enrolled into the Dokuz Eylül University in Izmir to study law. [1] Following his graduation, he worked as a lawyer in Van from 2007. [1] He is married since 2017. [2]
As a lawyer he was involved in cases dealing with human rights violations and torture. [3] He became a member of the board of the Van Bar Association in 2012 and between 2018 and 2022 he was its president. [4] As the president of the Van Bar Association he refused to attend a ceremony marking the beginning of a new judicial year in the Presidential Palace in 2019, together with the majority of the lawyers in Turkey [5] and took part in the march of lawyers against a change of the electoral system in Bar Associations in June 2020. [6] In October 2021, he defended the right of manifestation and opposed the ban on manifestations imposed after the failed attempted coup d'état in 2016. [7] In the parliamentary elections of May 2023, he was elected to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, representing Van for the YSP. [8]