Sema Pişkinsüt is a Turkish physician and politician born in Istanbul in 1952. Aydın is known for chairing the Turkish Grand National Assembly's Human Rights Investigation Commission while he was a member of parliament and for his work bringing torture allegations to the public.
He graduated from Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine and received his specialization in internal medicine at the same university. He worked as an internal medicine specialist at Aydın State Hospital, and later became the chief physician of the hospital.
political life
XX from the Democratic Left Party. and XXI. He was elected as an Aydın MP during those periods. As the head of the Human Rights Commission, he carried out unannounced inspections of police stations, brought the torture instruments he found there to the Parliament and showed them to the press, and prepared reports by meeting with the victims.
After the ministries refused to ask for the identities of the victims mentioned in the reports, a report was prepared against him and the removal of his immunity was brought to the agenda.
At the DSP congress in 2001, he faced Bülent Ecevit for the chairmanship and lost with 463 votes against 68. He left the party after the congress, which was full of tension and conflict. He founded the Socialist Democratic Party in January 2002, together with Mehmet Özcan and Nazire Karakuş, who left the DSP in the same year, and became its leader.
In the 2002 general elections, the party nominated its candidates from the Freedom and Solidarity Party lists; Pişkinsüt could not re-enter the Parliament.
