Feleknas Uca is a German-Turkish politician of Kurdish descent. From 1999 to 2009,she was member of the European Parliament from Germany,serving with Die Linke. Feleknas Uca was at one time the world's only Yazidi parliamentarian until the Iraqi legislature was elected in 2005. She is currently HDP's Batman MP.
Ahmet Türk is a Kurdish politician from the Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party. He has been a member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey for several terms and was elected thrice as the Mayor of Mardin.
Selahattin Demirtaş is a Turkish politician and author of Kurdish origin. He was the co-leader of the left-wing pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP),serving alongside Figen Yüksekdağfrom 2014 to 2018. Selahattin Demirtaşannounced that he left politics after the May 2023 elections.
Selma Irmak,is a Kurdish politician from Turkey and former MP for the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) and People's Democratic Party (HDP).
Meral DanışBeştaş is a Kurdish politician from the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP),who has served as a Member of Parliament since 7 June 2015.
Erol Dora is a lawyer and a politician of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP). A member of the Assyrian people community in Turkey,he is a well-known advocate for minority rights,Assyrian particularly the human rights situation of Turkey's Christian minorities.
Mithat Sancar 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.
İdris Baluken is a Turkish politician of Kurdish origin who currently serves as a parliamentary group leader of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) since April 2014. He previously served as a parliamentary group leader for the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) from 2012 until the party's MPs joined the HDP in April 2014.
The Civil Protection Units,also known as Civil Defense Units,is a primarily Kurdish rebel group and main armed force in Turkish Kurdistan. The YPS was formed by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) to better organize and train the youth fighters in the Patriotic Revolutionary Youth Movement,otherwise known as the YDG-H. In 2015 the YDG-H reorganized themselves in to what is known as the YPS today.
Tuğba Hezer Öztürk is a Turkish politician from Kurdish descent of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) and a former Member of the Grand National Assembly for of Van.
Abdullah Zeydan is a Kurdish politician from Turkey and a member of the Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party.
Gülser Yıldırım is a Turkish Kurd politician of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) and former member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. In 2011,she was elected into the Turkish parliament out of prison,but had to wait until 2014 until she was allowed to assume by a Turkish court.
Çağlar Demirel is a Turkish politician of Kurdish origin and a former member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP).
The Peoples' Democratic Party closure case refers to a legal procedure during which the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) is threatened with closure while hundreds of its politicians face a political ban for five years. The HDP was accused to have organizational ties with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
Sibel Yiğitalp is a politician of Kurdish descent and a former member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey for the People's Democratic Party (HDP).
Tülay HatimoğullarıOruç is a Turkish linguistics rights activist and politician. She is the Co-Chair of the Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party and a member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey.
Mizgin Irgat is a Turkish lawyer and politician of Kurdish origin. She is a member of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) and a former member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey.
Alican Önlü is a politician of the Peoples Democratic Party (HDP) and a member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. Throughout his political career he was a politician in a variety of parties such as the Democracy Party (DEP) and the Democratic Society Party (DTP).
Nuran İmir is a politician of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) and a member in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. Having been a member of the Peoples Democracy Party for over a decade,she moved to Germany in 2003. She returned to Turkey in 2015,eventually becoming a Member of Parliament for the HDP in 2018.
