Ihsan Seylan, one of the executives of the Human Rights Association (İHD) Ankara Branch and the October 10 Peace Association, is the Green Left Party Ankara 2nd Region 1st candidate in the elections to be held on 14 May. He spoke to ANF about the election process and said that the violations of the people in Turkey depend on the course of the political climate and that violations may increase or decrease with the change of this climate. He added that he accepted to be a candidate because he wants to contribute to the struggle for rights and to spread it to wider sections of society. "This is a party that includes everyone. The Green Left Party is the party of everyone from all walks of life. Politics is only part of the battlefield. I am sure we will get rid of evil on 14 May. They lost before, but they killed us, destroyed us, and persecuted us in order not to accept defeat."

Reminding the words of the Prime Minister at the time, Ahmet Davutoğlu - "If I say what I know, the ground will shake" - Seylan said that everyone should share what they know about that dark period. Pointing out that the ISIS attack, which caused the death of 103 people in Ankara on 10 October, is directly related to the conflict process, Seylan continued: “Those people lost their lives through a series of negligence. We will ask those responsible to account for this. We will defend the rights of children, women's rights, the disabled, the rights of all others. Our struggle in the field will continue against the fact that millions of people cannot speak their own language and that the languages in the parliamentary minutes are still shown as X or unknown languages."

Seylan gave some information about his life, saying: "I was born in a mountain village in Tekman district, in the Palandöken Mountains, one of the most difficult climate areas. We had a tough and challenging educational life. After completing high school education in Erzurum, I came to Ankara. I have been living in Ankara since the early 2000s. After the 10 October Massacre, we actually carried out a psychological process. We carried out the processes of the injured. I served as the co-chair of the October 10 Peace Association. We worked at the Human Rights Association. We made documentaries on Kurds, Alevis and others. We tried to be the voice of others through various conferences, interviews and events. We have been fighting for a right for years. We tried to overcome the difficulties together in many areas of this struggle for rights."