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
2007 Turkish presidential election as the favorite, a controversy started after Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan's last speech. Erdoğan said "The people who say that (Gül is not my president), must renounce their citizenship" on television in reply to an article of Bekir Coşkun, a columnist known for his opposition to the ruling AKP. Many people find this anti-democratic. After completion of the second round, Abdullah Gül was elected. The results are: Summary of the August 2007 Turkish presidential election candidates ! style="text-align:left; background:#e9e9e9; vertical-align:top;" colspan="2"|Candidates ! style="text-align:left; background:#e9e9e9; vertical-align:top;"|Party ! style="background:#e9e9e9; text-align:right;"|1st round(20 August) ! style="background:#e9e9e9; text-align:right;"|2nd round(24 August) ! style="background:#e9e9e9; text-align:right;"|3rd round(28 August)