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Demir Çelik

Politician · Counter-sanctioned entity

Demir Çelik is subject to counter-sanctions. Counter-sanctions are designations imposed by countries with weak democratic institutions. They are often punitive responses to foreign sanctions, or can be used to suppress domestic political opposition. See the individual program listings below. They are also a politically exposed person.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Demir ÇELİK · Demir Çelik				[sources]
Alias	Demir Celik				[sources]
Birth date	1959-12-21				[sources]
Place of birth	BADAN · Varto				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Türkiye				[sources]
Country	Türkiye				[sources]
Citizenship	Türkiye				[sources]
Classification	National government (past)				[sources]
First name	Demir				[sources]
Last name	ÇELİK · Çelik				[sources]
Political association	Peace and Democracy Party				[sources]
Program	Türkiye Ministry Of Interior Terrorist Wanted List - yellow List				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q19610970				[sources]
Position	Grand National Assembly (member, 2011-2015) · member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey				[sources]
Education	Hacettepe University				[sources]
Last change	2025-12-29	Last processed	2025-12-29	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Turkish statesperson (born 1959)

— Wikidata non-official source, 2025-12-26

Relationships

Linked to
Object	Role	Start date	End date
PKK/KCK	-	-	-

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Member of the Grand National Assembly	2011-06-28	2015-06-23
member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey

Data sources

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories384,631

Category-based imports from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

MySociety's EveryPolitician Dataset of National Legislators57,731

All members of national legislatures in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.

Global · MySociety · non-official source

Türkiye Ministry Of Interior Terrorist Wanted List2,643

List of people considered wanted for terrorism by the Türkiye Ministry of Interior

Türkiye · Türkiye Ministry of Interior

External databases

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions552,461

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata355,584

Wikidata is the structured data project of the Wikipedia community, providing fact-based information edited by humans and machines

External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: tr-wanted-9f6571223b76da2ebed8566250e65bdb85c52620 · evpo-47abcf9e-aa98-4c53-94a3-8ed580984e2c

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