Mithat Sancar

Mithat Sancar
Mithat Sancar, 2022
Chairman of the Peoples’ Democratic Party
In office
23 February 2020 – 27 August 2023
Serving with Pervin Buldan
Preceded bySezai Temelli
Succeeded byCahit Kırkazak
Deputy Speaker of the Grand National Assembly
In office
20 February 2018 – 23 February 2020
Speakerİsmail Kahraman
Binali Yıldırım
Mustafa Şentop
Serving with
Preceded byPervin Buldan
Succeeded byNimetullah Erdoğmuş
Member of the Grand National Assembly
Assumed office
7 June 2015
ConstituencyMardin (June 2015, Nov 2015, 2018)
Şanlıurfa (2023)
Personal details
Born1963 (age 60–61)
Nusaybin, Turkey
Political partyPeople's Democratic Party (HDP)
SpouseTürkan Sancar
Alma materAnkara University
ProfessionConstitutional law scholar
Mithat Sancar in 2015

Mithat Sancar (born 1963) is a Turkish professor of public and constitutional law, columnist, and translator of Arab descent. He has been an MP for the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) in the Turkish parliament since the June 2015 general election and was elected Co-Chair of the party in February 2020.