Mahmut Toğrul

Mahmut Toğrul (born 1967, Pazarcık, Turkey) is a chemist and politician of the Peoples Democratic Party (HDP).

[5] He was the representative of the Education and Science Workers' Union (Egitim Sen) of the Dicle University for fifteen years.

[9] In November 2012, Mahmut Toğrul joined dozens of academics to announce their support for the right to defend oneself in the native language, the end of the isolation of Abdullah Öcalan and a new start for the Kurdish-Turkish peace process.

[12] Mahmut Toğrul accused the Turkish military of carrying out an ethnic cleansing program in Afrin, Northern Syria in parliament following which a brawl between him and a fellow HDP lawmaker Müslim Doğan against MPs of the Governing Justice and Development Party (AKP) ensued.

[14] In November 2018, Mahmut Toğrul was sentenced to over 1 year and 6 months imprisonment over alleged terror propaganda he made during two speeches he held in 2016.