Faysal Sarıyıldız

Faysal Sarıyildiz (born 10 April 1975, Cizre)[1] is a Kurdish Turkish politician of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) and a former Member of Parliament representing the Sırnak Province, Turkey.

He studied mechanical engineering at the University of Harran in the province of Sanliurfa,[1] and reported for the Kurdish newspapers Ülkede Gündem and Özgür Bakış.

[3] He was elected to parliament in June 2011[4] as an independent supported by the Labour, Democracy and Freedom Bloc, but was denied to assume his post as the court ruled the parliamentary immunity does not apply in his case.

On 5 June 2017, the Turkish Interior Ministry announced that 130 people who are outside the country while being suspected of militant links will lose their citizenship unless they return to Turkey within three months and meet government standards.

[12] On the 7 September 2017 he and Tuğba Hezer Öztürk were relieved from their duties in parliament for "absenteeism" by the vote of the majority of the parliamentarians.