Selahattin Demirtaş is a Turkish-Kurdish politician, lawyer and author. He was the co-leader of the left-wing pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party, serving alongside Figen Yüksekdağ from 2014 to 2018
Demirtaş, 2015
Demirtaş meeting with the President of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz in 2013
Figen Yüksekdağ and Selahattin Demirtaş, November 2015 Turkish general election
The Peoples' Democratic Party, or Democratic Party of the Peoples, was a Turkish political party that mainly represented ethnic minorities in Turkey, especially Kurds. Generally left-wing, the party p
Labour Party founder Abdullah Levent Tüzel joined the HDP parliamentary caucus despite party's split with the HDP.
A HDP election stand in Germany, 3 May 2015