Safak Pavey is a Turkish diplomat, columnist and politician, born July 10, 1976, in Ankara, who became the first disabled woman elected to the Turkish parliament. She served as a member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey from June 2011 to October 2017, representing the Republican People's Party, and was Deputy Speaker of the Assembly from July to November 2015. In 1996, before her twentieth birthday, she lost her left arm and left leg in a train accident in Switzerland; she later served on the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and received the United States Department of State's International Women of Courage Award in 2012.
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Political RoleDeputy Speaker of the Grand National Assembly 1 Political RoleMember of the Grand National Assembly 1 Sources
1. Safak Pavey - Wikipedia (Wikipedia)
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