18.11.2025 14:20
Independent Istanbul MP Doğan Demir, who resigned from the Future Party, has joined the CHP. Özgür Özel, who pinned the badge on Demir, stated, "The CHP continues to grow. Our General President of the Alevi Culture Associations, Independent Istanbul MP Mr. Doğan Demir is returning to his political home, the CHP."
Independent Istanbul MP Doğan Demir, who resigned from the Future Party in July, joined the CHP. Demir was presented with his badge by CHP Chairman Özgür Özel.
"MR. DOĞAN DEMİR IS RETURNING TO HIS FAMILY HOME"
Özgür Özel stated, "The CHP continues to grow. Today, there will be a return to the family home. Graduating from the local government department of Eskişehir Anadolu University, in 1992, when our party was reopened, he was our founding youth branch president in Kocaeli Derince, later our provincial secretary, provincial deputy chairman, and municipal council member, and then our General President of Alevi Culture Associations, Independent Istanbul MP Mr. Doğan Demir is returning to his family home in the CHP. I invite him here. Let's invite our Kocaeli MPs here. He is our Istanbul MP, but he is a very valuable MP who was born, raised, and is still active in Kocaeli."
"WE WILL WALK TOGETHER WITH YOU TO STRENGTHEN OUR STRUGGLE"
Demir thanked Özel and said: "It is very valuable to join the party today with such a magnificent crowd. I would like to thank my friend Murat Emir, who has worked hard throughout this process. I thank all our group vice presidents. When I started my political life in the CHP 33 years ago, today I have the honor to fight in the CHP again, thanks to my esteemed Chairman and my comrades. I am a brother who has fought for love, tolerance, and social reconciliation throughout my life, and who has worked for many years in both the CHP and Alevi organizations, coming from the streets. Therefore, I declare from here that we will walk together in the CHP for the fundamental rights and freedoms of Alevis, and for democracy, human rights, and freedoms in our Turkey, and that we will work together to strengthen our struggle." I would like to thank all of you for this magnificent ceremony, especially our esteemed Chairman."
WHO IS DOĞAN DEMİR?
Doğan Demir was born in 1973 in the Varto district of Muş. He completed his primary and secondary education in Varto and his high school education in Adana. He graduated from the Local Governments Department of Anadolu University. He was engaged in trade in Kocaeli.
He served as the President of the Kocaeli Branch of the Alevi Culture Association (2009-2013) and as the General President (2013-2019). During his presidency at the Alevi Culture Association, he also served as the Secretary General of the Alevi Bektaşi Federation. In 2015, he participated as a speaker in a presentation on "Human Rights Violations in Turkey" organized by European Alevi institutions at the European Parliament. In August 2015, while he was on his way to Ankara to attend a meeting on "Alevis Want Peace," he was attacked with a firearm but escaped without injury.
He left his positions in the Alevi Culture Association and the Alevi Bektaşi Federation in 2019 when he became one of the founding members of the Future Party.
POLITICAL LIFE
In 1992, he served as the founding president of the youth branch in Derince during the re-establishment phase of the Republican People's Party (CHP). He was a municipal council member in Derince between 2003 and 2009.
He was a member of the Founders' Board of the Future Party, which was established on December 12, 2019. He served as the Deputy Chairman of the Party and the Head of Local Governments and Urbanism.
In the 2023 Turkey General Elections, he became the 8th candidate for MP from the CHP list in the Istanbul 3rd electoral district through the Millet Alliance quota and was elected as an MP for the 28th term. After being elected as an MP, he resigned from the position of Deputy Chairman of the Future Party. He joined the New Path, which was established on January 13, 2025, to form a joint parliamentary group with the Felicity Party, Future Party, and DEVA Party.
He resigned from the New Path on July 21, 2025.