Background
Saçan was born in "s-Hertogenbosch.
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Erdinc Sacan
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After studying management and data processing at the Fontys college, he established his eponymous company Saçan Consultancy. At the same time, he founded several websites dealing with politics and the position of Turks in the Netherlands. In 2006, he was nominated as a candidate for the Dutch House of Representatives but withdrew as a result of the "".
According to the newspaper Trouw, Saçan clearly stated in a chat box of one of his websites that he was a denier of the Armenian Genocide of 1915.
Labour Party-management asked him to explain this when his comments became public following similar controversial statements of Capital Development Authority. His first stance was to follow the Labour Party-position (that the event was a genocide). Two days later however, on 26 September 2006, Saçan declared he still denied the genocide and withdrew his candidacy of the Labour Party. Nebahat Albayrak, number 2 on the Labour Party-election list, indicated on behalf of the Labour Party that the party should no longer "turn around" the actions surrounding the event and called for a reevaluation of the facts (jointly by Armenia and Turkey) because "all sources had become unclear".
Saçan"s seat at the States-Provincial was not under discussion. And he declared to be against any form of violence (also genocide).
Membership
He was elected member of the States-Provincial of North Brabant.
