Abdullah Demirbaş Abdullah Demirbaş Abdullah Demirbaş (born 1966, Diyarbakir, Turkey) was the former mayor of the municipality of Sur in the city of Diyarbakir, Southeast Turkey, of the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP). After graduating in sociology at Firat University in Elazig, Abdullah Demirbas worked as a philosophy teacher from 1987 to 2007, contributing to setting up the Mardin Branch of the Turkish Union of Teachers. When he was elected as Mayor of Sur in 2004, he made a commitment to his electorate to serve them in their own languages. On the 6.10.2006 the Sur municipal council decided that since the population
Hafiz Gul Bahadur returned to Pakistan in late 2007. In December he joined Baitullah Mehsud's Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) as its first deputy leader. Gul Bahadur attempted to distance himself from the TTP after the group began to attack government forces. Although no formal announcement of leaving the TTP occurred, Gul Bahadur often refused to coordinate activities with the TTP against the government. During late 2007 and early 2008, Bahadur refused to assist Baitullah Mehsud against the Pakistani Army and urged him to refrain from fighting Pakistani forces in Razmak, North Waziristan. In July 2008 Gul Bahadur and Maulvi Nazir, leader of the