Ammon News - Jean Atalay will be released from Silivri prison once the election results are finalized after becoming a Hatay State MP.

According to election results data, the Turkish Workers’ Party received 44,792 votes, and with this result, Can Atalay was elected as a Member of Parliament because he was the party’s first candidate in the earthquake-stricken Hatay region. earthen.

“Thank you, Hatay,” Atalay wrote from confinement in a letter of thanks to voters in Hatay, adding, “Healing the wounds of the earthquake that shook our country and turned into a disaster in Hatay with the incompetence civil servants will come first and foremost, if the parliamentary vote and the votes of the Turkish Workers’ Party only alleviate the situation.” The pain of those who have lost their loved ones, the hundreds of thousands of citizens of Hatay who have lost their homes and their jobs in the past and in the future as well as their future.

He made his promise to the townspeople saying, “We will rebuild Hatay together.”

Who is Jean Atalay?

He has worked as a lawyer for 20 years. He specialized in the defense cases of the families of the deceased miners in Soma, who died in the Hindak explosion and in the Çorlu railway disaster. Atalay has been known as a socialist since his school days. He has worked as a rights defender on many social issues as a board member of the Social Rights Association and has been involved in many cases defending journalists, including the Cumhuriyet newspaper crisis. He was one of the organizers of the campaign against the demolition of the Emek cinema. He was arrested after the Gezi Park protests against the Justice and Development government.

The Turkish Workers’ Party managed to win 3 more seats in the Istanbul elections, where the leader of the party, Erkan Bash, was in the second constituency, Ahmed Cek, who was a candidate in the second constituency, and the candidate in the first constituency, Sera Kadigil.