The HDP list of candidates for the 7 June elections includes Armenians, Islamists, Alevis, workers, women, environmentalists, LGBT activists and representatives of all oppressed groups.

The Peoples Democratic Party (HDP) submitted its list of candidates for the 7 June General Elections in Turkey yesterday. HDP Co-president Figen Yüksekdağ is top of the list in Van, while Co-president Selahattin Demirtaş is top of the list in the first electoral region in Istanbul.

Of the Imralı delegation members, Sırrı Süreyya Önder is top of the list in the first electoral region in Ankara and Pervin Buldan is top of the list in the third region in Istanbul. As for İdris Baluken, he is top of the list in Diyarbakır. 

DTK Co-president Selma Irmak is top of the list in Hakkari and HDK Co-president Ertuğrul Kürkçü is top of the list in the first electoral region in Izmir.

MP Leyla Zana is top of the list in Ağrı, and SDP President Rıdvan Turan is top of the list in Adana.

Alevi and Armenian candidates on the HDP list

Islamist woman writer Hüda Kaya is second on the list in the first region in Istanbul.

The President of the Confederation of Alevi Associations in Europe, Turgut Öker, is top of the list in the second region of Istanbul, while well known woman lawyer Filiz Kerestecioğlu is second on the list. Academic Sezai Temelli is third on the list and fourth is HDP Youth Coordination candidate Şerife Erbay. Also on the list is the chair of the University Staff Association, Tahsin Yeşildere.

Armenian Karabet Paylan is second on the list in the third region of Istanbul and MP Levent Tüzel is third. Fourth on the list is Hubyar Sultan, the chair of the Alevi Cultural Association Environmental activist Beyza Üstün is also on the list.

Gezi activists candidates in Istanbul

Trade Union leader Hasan Gülüm is second on the list in the first region of Istanbul, and workers and women’s rights lawyer Sezin Uçar, Armenian Murat Mıhçı, Çağdaş Küçükbattal, who lost an eye as the result of being hit by a gas canister fired by police during the Gezi protests, and Fatma Saygılı, a woman active in union work, are also amongst the candidates.

Armenian Flor Uluk Benli, women’s rights activists Emine Güngör Öztürk and Hülya İmak, and conscientious objector Halil Savda are also on the list in the third region of Istanbul.

Alevi candidate in Izmir

Müslüm Doğan, the chair of the Alevi Pir Sultan Abdal Culture Association is top of the list in the second region of Izmir, while singer Pınar Aydınlar, who was the HDP co-mayoral candidate in Istanbul during the municipal elections last year, is second on the list.

Islamist writer and journalist Ayhan Bilgen is top of the list in Kars.

In the event of the HDP exceeding the threshold, one of the provinces where they expect to see candidates elected is Kocaeli, where Ali Haydar Konca is a candidate. In Bursa, veteran Kurdish activist Asiye Kolçak is on the list.

Former MEP Uca candidate in Amed

Former MEP Feleknas Uca is fourth on the list in Amed, while Altan Tan is fifth on the list.

Former CHP Antep Mayor Celal Doğan is top of the list in Antep, while founding member of the AKP Dengir Mir Mehmet Fırat is top of the list in Mersin. Writer Aziz Tunç, who has researched the massacre in Maraş, is top of the list in that province.

Academic Mithat Sancar is top of the list in Mardin, while Syriac MP Erol Dora is third on the list.

Former mayor of Amed, Osman Baydemir and Abdullah Öcalan's 27-year-old niece Dilek Öcalan Urfa, while Roboskî activist Ferhat Encü is a candidate in Şırnak.

Environmentalist lawyer candidate in Bartın

Armenian environmentalist lawyer Diren Cevahir Şen is a candidate in Bartın. 

LGBT activist Barış Sulu is on the list in Eskişehir and the mother of Ayşe Deniz Karacagil, the ‘girl with the red scarf’, who became famous during the Gezi protests and later joined the HPG, Nuray Erçağan, is a candidate in Antalya.