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Cengiz Çandar

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The author of seven books and a columnist, Çandar was tried from 2021 to 2023 for “praising crime and criminals” due to a 2017 tweet on a Kurdish revolutionary fighter. He was initially sentenced and then fined in May 2023. After residing in Sweden as a visiting scholar, he returned to Türkiye as of April 2023 to run for political office and was elected. He is currently serving as an MP in Diyarbakir.