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
Alam Gul Kuchi Alam Gul Kuchi Hajji Alam Gul Kuchi is an Afghan politician, the parliamentary representative of the Kuchi nomads in the Wolesi Jirga. In the 9th of April 2008 session of the Afghan parliament, dozens of representatives left the chamber in protest against remarks made by Haji Alam Gul Kuchi. The incident occurred over disagreements on a draft version of Afghanistan's electoral law. Specifically, the draft included an item that allows for the Kuchi nomads to have the right to vote in any constituency all over the country, while the rest of the population can only vote in their respective provincial