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|membership_year = 2014 |membership=11,942〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=HALKLARIN DEMOKRATİK PARTİSİ )〕 |position = Left-wing |international = ''None'' |seats1_title = Parliament: |seats1 = | seats2_title = Metropolitan municipalities: | seats2 = | seats3_title = District municipalities: | seats3 = | seats4_title = Municipal councillors: | seats4 = | seats5_title = Provincial councillors: | seats5 = |colours = Purple |website = |country = Turkey }} The Peoples' Democratic Party (Turkish: ''Halkların Demokratik Partisi'' (HDP), Kurdish: ''Partiya Demokratîk a Gelan''), or Democratic Party of the Peoples, is a pro-Kurdish and pro-minority political party in Turkey. Generally a left-wing party, the party places a strong emphasis on participatory democracy, minority rights, and egalitarianism. It is associated with the Party of European Socialists (PES). Aspiring to fundamentally challenge the existing Turkish-Kurdish divide and other existing parameters in Turkish politics, the HDP was founded in 2012 as the political wing of the Peoples' Democratic Congress, a union of numerous left-wing movements that had previously fielded candidates as independents to bypass the 10% election threshold. It is in alliance with the Kurdish Democratic Regions Party (DBP), often described as the HDP's fraternal party. While the HDP's claims that it represents the whole of Turkey, critics have accused the party of mainly representing the interests of the Kurdish minority in south-eastern Turkey, where the party polls the highest. From 2013 to 2015, the HDP participated in peace negotiations with the Turkish government on behalf of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) separatist militant organisation, with which it is accused of having direct links. The party operates a co-presidential system of leadership, with one chairman and one chairwoman. As of 22 June 2014, these chairpersons are Selahattin Demirtaş and Figen Yüksekdağ respectively. In the 2014 presidential election, the party put forward its chairman, Selahattin Demirtaş, who won 9.77% of the vote. Despite concerns that it could fall short of the 10% election threshold, the party put forward party-lists instead of running independent candidates the subsequent June 2015 general election. Exceeding expectations, it polled at 13.12%, becoming the third largest parliamentary group. The party briefly participated in the interim election government formed by AKP Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu on 28 August 2015, with HDP MPs Ali Haydar Konca and Müslüm Doğan becoming the Minister of European Union Affairs and the Minister of Development respectively. ==Overview== The HDP is a democratic socialist party that adheres to anti-capitalism and claims to aspire to end religious, gender and racial discrimination. The party has a 50% quota for women and a 10% quota for the LGBT community when fielding candidates. The party is also environmentalist, opposing the introduction of nuclear power in Turkey and also speaking out strongly in favour of the Gezi Park protests in 2013 that began as an environmentalist demonstration. It is said to resonate with liberal, middle-class Turks. Despite their anti-nationalist stance, the party has been perceived by some to be a Kurdish nationalist party due to their affiliation with the Democratic Regions Party and their support for minority rights. While the HDP maintains that the party looks beyond the traditional 'Turkish or Kurdish' dichotomy, it has openly participated in talks with imprisoned PKK rebel organisation leader Abdullah Öcalan. The party has been accused of maintaining direct links with the PKK and the Kurdish confederalist KCK.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=HDP KCK üyelerini de aday gösterecek )〕 The HDP first participated in the 2014 local elections, where it ran in most provinces in western Turkey while the DBP ran in the Kurdish south-east. The two parties combined gained 6.2% of the total votes but HDP failed to win any municipalities. Selahattin Demirtaş was the party's candidate for the 2014 presidential election, where he won 9.77% of the vote with support mostly coming from south-eastern Turkey. The 21 MPs from the Peace and Democracy Party, the predecessor of the DBP, joined the HDP on 28 August 2014.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=BDP lawmakers join sister-party HDP - POLITICS )〕 For the June 2015 general election, the HDP took the decision to field candidates as a party despite the danger of potentially falling below the 10% threshold. Even though most of the politicians from HDP are secular left-wing Kurds, the candidate list included devout Muslims, socialists, Alevis, Armenians, Assyrians, Azerbaijanis, Circassians, Lazi, Romanis and LGBT activists. Of the 550 candidates, 268 were women. In 2015, Bariş Sulu was the first openly gay parliamentary candidate in Turkey as a candidate of the HDP.〔(First-ever openly gay parliamentary candidate stands for election in Turkey ) The Independent, 25 May 2015. Retrieved 7 June 2015.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Peoples' Democratic Party (Turkey)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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