PEOPLES

The main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) and Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) criticized President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for his remarks that the government would appoint a trustee to elected HDP mayors after March polls "if they are linked to terror" and suggested it was "blackmail to voters and harms confidence in democracy."

The Turkish Parliament approved four articles of a contentious anti-terror bill on July 23, leading ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) lawmakers and Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) lawmakers to engage in a brawl over HDP lawmaker Ahmet Şık's speech in the general assembly.

Turkish prosecutors on July 20 launched a probe into two Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) lawmakers for attending the funeral of an outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militant in the southeastern Batman province. 

The Kurdish-issue focused Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) managed to get more than 10 percent of the votes in Turkey's June 24 elections, passing the national election threshold.

The presidential candidate for Turkey's main opposition on May 5 called for the release of Selahattin Demirtaş, former co-chair of Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), challenging President Tayyip Erdoğan to "let us race like men" in next month's snap elections.

"We will announce the name of our presidential candidate on May 4," co-chair of the Kurdish problem-focused Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), Sezai Temelli said on April 30.

Matthew Palmer, acting deputy assistant secretary at the State Department's Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, told the US Congress's House of Representatives foreign affairs committee on Wednesday that a post-election crisis in Bosnia and Herzegovina could have serious consequences.

The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) will be defeated in the early elections, Kurdish issued-focused Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Sezai Temelli has vowed a day after MHP leader Devlet Bahçeli called for snap elections on Aug. 26.

The Kurdish problem-focused Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) has called for an emergency provincial leaders' meeting in Ankara on April 18 in the wake of calls for an early election. 

Parliament Speaker İsmail Kahraman should visit prison in order to “keep his promise” to visit all party leaders in Turkey, Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) spokesperson Ayhan Bilgen said on Nov. 14 in his party’s parliamentary group meeting in Ankara.