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Abdullah Zeydan

Politician

Abdullah Zeydan is a politically exposed person. They are a person of interest by virtue of their position and the influence they may hold. They have not been found on international sanctions lists.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Abdullah Zeydan				[sources]
Birth date	1972-03-13				[sources]
Place of birth	Yüksekova district				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Türkiye				[sources]
Country	Türkiye				[sources]
Citizenship	Türkiye				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Abdullah				[sources]
Last name	Zeydan				[sources]
Political association	Peoples' Democratic Party · Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party				[sources]
Website	twitter.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q31189280				[sources]
Position	Grand National Assembly (member, 2015-) · Grand National Assembly (member, 2015-2015) · mayor of Van (2024-) · member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey (2015-2015) · member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey (2015-2018)				[sources]
Education	International American University				[sources]
Last change	2026-01-18	Last processed	2026-01-18	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Turkish statesperson of Kurdish ancestry (born 1972)

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

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Data sources

MySociety's EveryPolitician Dataset of National Legislators40,660

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

Global · MySociety · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories383,999

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

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Wikidata333,666

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions525,806

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

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