Peoples' Democratic Party

The Halkların Demokratik Partisi ( German: " Democratic Party of the Peoples", abbreviation HDP) is a political party in Turkey. According to its statutes, its goal to build a democratic government by the people, and to allow people a dignified life without repression, exploitation and discrimination. Addressees are, inter alia, all the oppressed and exploited and all peoples and faiths that are denied and exploited. The party is de facto a part of the party Barış ve Demokrasi Partisi (BDP ).

The party was in 2012 formally from the Halkların Demokratik Kongresi ( German: "Democratic Congress of Peoples" ), and is attributed to the left Kurdish spectrum. Several prominent members of the BDP changed in October 2013 officially to the HDP, with which there is considerable overlap of personnel. Leading politicians of the BDP and HDP explained that the BDP auftrete in western Turkey as HDP. The Halkların Demokratik Partisi will participate for the first time in March 2014 in the local elections in Turkey. For the general elections 2015, the BDP will join the HDP.

At a party conference on 27 October 2013, Ankara Ertuğrul Kürkçü and Sebahat Tuncel were elected as the party chairman. However, since there can be no double peak in the Turkish Political Parties Act, Tuncel is official party chairman. Also a member of the newly elected party committee are representatives of the LGBT movement, the Gezi - park movement, people in public life and different ethnic groups and religious views.

Through its membership of Ertuğrul Kürkçü, Sebahat Tuncel, Sırrı Süreyya Önder and Levent Tüzel the HDP is the fifth party in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. After the four deputies Gursel Yıldırım, İbrahim Ayhan, Selma Irmak and Faysal Sarıyıldız were dismissed in February 2014 as part of the KCK processes from custody, she also joined shortly thereafter to the HDP.