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.
The Democratic Society Party was a Kurdish nationalist political party in Turkey. The party considered itself social-democratic and had observer status in the Socialist International. It was considered to be the successor of the Democratic People's Party (DEHAP). The party was established in 2005 and succeeded in getting elected more than ninety mayors in the municipal elections of 2009. On 11 December 2009,the Constitutional Court of Turkey banned the DTP,ruling that the party has become "focal point of activities against the indivisible unity of the state,the country and the nation". The ban has been widely criticized both by groups within Turkey and by several international organizations. The party was succeeded by the Peace and Democracy Party.
Ahmet Türk is a Kurdish politician 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.
Fatma Kurtulan is a Turkish Kurd politician of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) in Turkey.
Aysel Tuğluk is a Kurdish politician from Turkey and was a founding member of the Democratic Society Party (DTP) in Turkey. Aysel Tuğluk is currently imprisoned at the Kocaeli F-Type Prison,located near Istanbul.
Pervin Buldan is a Turkish politician of Kurdish origin. She was a member of the Democratic Society Party (DTP). She was President of Yakay-Der and one of the deputy speakers in the 26th Parliament of Turkey. On 11 February 2018,she was elected co-leader of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) in the party's 3rd ordinary congress.
Selahattin Demirtaş is a Turkish politician and author of Zaza 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.
Leyla Güven is a Kurdish politician and 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).
Selma Irmak,is a Kurdish politician from Turkey and former MP for the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) and People's Democratic Party (HDP).
The Peoples' Democratic Party,or Democratic Party of the Peoples,is a pro-Kurdish political party in Turkey. Generally left-wing,the party places a strong emphasis on participatory and radical democracy,feminism,minority rights,youth rights,and egalitarianism. It is an associate member of the Party of European Socialists (PES),a consultative member of the Socialist International,and a party within the Progressive Alliance (PA).
The 2014 Kobanîprotests in Turkey were large-scale rallies by pro-People's Defense Units (YPG) protestors in Turkey which occurred in autumn 2014,as a spillover of the crisis in Kobanî. Large demonstrations unfolded in Turkey,and quickly descended into violence between protesters and the Turkish police. Several military incidents between Turkish forces and militants of the Youth Wing of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in south-eastern Turkey contributed to the escalation. Protests then spread to various cities in Turkey. Protesters were met with tear gas and water cannons,and initially 12 people were killed. A total of 31 people were killed in subsequent protesting up to 14 October.
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".
Ertuğrul Kürkçü is a Turkish politician,socialist activist and the current Honorary President of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) as of 22 June 2014 and Honorary Associate of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) as of 8 October 2018.
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).
Musa Farisoğulları is a Kurdish politician and a member of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP).
On the 17 June 2021,Deniz Poyraz,a 38-year-old member of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) was killed in the provincial seat of the party in Konak,Izmir which was under police surveillance. In December 2022,the murderer was sentenced to an aggravated life imprisonment.
Abdullah Öcalan has been imprisoned on İmralıIsland in the Sea of Marmara since February 1999. He is serving a life sentence for violating article 125 of the Turkish Penal Code. Initially he was sentenced to death but the conviction was commuted to a life sentence in October 2002.
Hasip Kaplan a Turkish politician of Kurdish origin and former member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey for several parties,in 2015 he represented the Peoples Democratic Party (HDP) in the Turkish Parliament.
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).
