Ahmet Türk is a Turkish politician of Kurdish origin from the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP). He has been a member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey for several terms and was elected twice as the Mayor of Mardin. He was born into a family of Kurdish clan and tribal chiefs in southeastern Turkey.
Leyla Güven is HDP MP for Hakkari,co-chair of the Democratic Society Congress (DTK) and former mayor of the municipality of Viranşehir in the Şanlıurfa Province of Southeast Anatolia of Turkey,where she represented the former Democratic Society Party (DTP).
Nursel Aydoğan,is a Turkish politician and former MP for Diyarbakır.
Selma Irmak,is a Kurdish politician from Turkey and former MP for the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) and People`s Democratic Party (HDP).
Figen YüksekdağŞenoğlu is a Turkish politician and journalist,who was a former co-leader of the left-wing Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) of Turkey from 2014 to 2017,serving alongside Selahattin Demirtaş. She was a Member of Parliament for Van since the June 2015 general election until her parliamentary membership was revoked by the courts on 21 February 2017. Her party membership and therefore her co-leadership position were revoked by the courts on 9 March 2017 following a six-year prison sentence for distributing "terrorist propaganda".
Berdan Öztürk is a Turkish politician from the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP),who has served as a Member of Parliament for the electoral district of Ağrısince 7 June 2015.
Dirayet Taşdemir is a Turkish-Kurdish politician from the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP),who has served as a Member of Parliament for the electoral district of Ağrısince 7 June 2015.
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.
Faysal Sarıyildiz is a politician of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) and a former Member of Parliament representing the Sırnak Province.
Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu is a Turkish medical doctor (pulmonologist),human rights activist and an MP for the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP). He has dedicated his political career to fighting against the human rights violations in Turkey.
The December 2007 Turkish incursion into northern Iraq,by the Turkish Air Force,began on 16 December 2007,when the Turkish Military bombed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) targets in northern Iraq.
Tuncer Bakirhan is a former chairman of the Democratic People's Party (DEHAP) and the former Mayor of Siirt. He was dismissed from his duties as mayor by the Turkish ministry of the interior,arrested and sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Rojda Nazlıer is a Kurdish politician of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) from Turkey. She was elected as the mayor of Kocaköy,in March 2019 but was removed from her post in October 2019 on grounds of an investigation in terror related charges.
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.
Sara Kaya is a Kurdish politician from Turkey and a former mayor of Nusaybin. She is currently being held at the Tarsus prison in Mersin.
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).
HakkıSaruhan Oluç is a Turkish politician and engineer,a former member and founder of the Freedom and Solidarity Party (ÖDP) and current member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey for the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP).
Musa Farisoğulları is a Kurdish politician and a member of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP).
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).
HacıLokman Birlik was killed during the conflict between it and the Turkish Army on 2 or 3 October 2015. His dead body was tied to an armoured police vehicle in Şırnak,Turkey,an event that the Turkish police filmed,and shared on social media. The Turkish Ministry of the Interior confirmed the dragging of the dead body,justifying it by saying that authorities were concerned that a bomb may have been attached to the body.
