"A conception of citizenship that is more inclusive of diverse, non-Turkish group would be the sign that everybody in Turkey has equal rights and this could contribute to the improvement of Turkey."
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A Christian lawyer elected to Parliament: new hope for the country (14 June 2011) Fides News Agency
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Erol Dora
Erol Dora (2 February 1964) is a lawyer and a politician of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP). A member of the Assyrian people community in Turkey, he is a well-known advocate for minority rights, Assyrian particularly the human rights situation of Turkey's Christian minorities. In the 2011 general election Dora became the first ethnic Assyrian member of the Turkish Parliament, and the first Christian MP since 1960. Since 2014 a member of the HDP, he was re-elected in the consecutive June and
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