Süheyl Batum is a Turkish

Turkish people

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 academic and the former rector of Bahçeşehir University

Bahçesehir University

Bahçeşehir University is a private educational institution in Turkey, on the European side of Istanbul. The Turkish National Assembly authorized the establishment of the University of Bahçeşehir by the Bahçeşehir Uğur Education Foundation in 1998. An academic and strategic protocol was signed...

, Istanbul

Istanbul

Istanbul , historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople , is the largest city of Turkey. Istanbul metropolitan province had 13.26 million people living in it as of December, 2010, which is 18% of Turkey's population and the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Europe after London and...

. He is currently an active politician as the deputy of the leader of Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu

Kemal Kiliçdaroglu

Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu is a Turkish social democrat politician. He is currently leader of the Republican People's Party and Leader of the Main Opposition in Turkey. He has been the Member of Parliament for İstanbul since 2002....

, leader of the Republican Peoples Party of Turkey.

Biography

He was born on May 6, 1955 in Istanbul

Istanbul

Istanbul , historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople , is the largest city of Turkey. Istanbul metropolitan province had 13.26 million people living in it as of December, 2010, which is 18% of Turkey's population and the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Europe after London and...

. Having finished his high school education at Galatasaray High School in 1975, he attended the faculty of law at the University of Paris

University of Paris

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, and graduated in 1979. Batum received his Doctor of Laws degree in 1986. Following his postdoctoral studies in international law

International law

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, particularly in human rights

Human rights

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, he became professor in 1996. Since 1993, Batum lectured constitutional law

Constitutional law

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 at a number of universities in Istanbul such as İstanbul University

Istanbul University

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, Marmara University

Marmara University

Marmara University is a public university in Turkey. Situated in Istanbul, Marmara University has succeeded in becoming the second largest university in the whole country...

, Yeditepe University

Yeditepe University

Yeditepe University is a foundation university situated in Istanbul, Turkey. Founded in 1996, Yeditepe University now claims to be the largest of the 27 foundation universities in Turkey....

, İstanbul Bilgi University

Istanbul Bilgi University

Istanbul Bilgi University is a private, non-profit university in Istanbul, Turkey. It was actually established in 1994 under the name ISIS , but its name was changed to Istanbul Bilgi University with the foundation of the school on June 7, 1996...

, Galatasaray University

Galatasaray University

Galatasaray University or Université Galatasaray is a Turkish university established in İstanbul, Turkey in 1992, following an agreement signed with the presence of President François Mitterrand of France and President Turgut Özal of Turkey during a ceremony at Galatasaray High School, the mother...

 and now he is lecturing in Bahçeşehir University

Bahçesehir University

Bahçeşehir University is a private educational institution in Turkey, on the European side of Istanbul. The Turkish National Assembly authorized the establishment of the University of Bahçeşehir by the Bahçeşehir Uğur Education Foundation in 1998. An academic and strategic protocol was signed...

. He is now a member of the current Republican People's Party in Turkey. He as appointed as the Secretary General of the Party. However, surprisingly he is appointed as the deputy of the party leader.