Labour, Democracy and Freedom Bloc
Labour, Democracy and Freedom Bloc Emek, Demokrasi ve Özgürlük Bloğu | |
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Left-wing | |
Colours | Yellow |
Slogan | Demokratik Cumhuriyet (A Democratic Republic) |
Participating parties | Parties |
Website | |
Website [dead link] | |
The Labour, Democracy and Freedom Bloc (
The main participants were the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party, the
The alliance between several left-wing parties paved the way for the establishment of the Peoples' Democratic Congress. The Congress, in which many of the Bloc-supporting groups participated, established a political party named the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) in 2012. The HDP contested the June 2015 general election as a party with many of the Bloc parties support, winning 13.12% of the vote and ending the convention of fielding independent candidates for general elections.
2011 election
The Bloc won 5.67% of the vote, with 35 of their candidates elected. The elected candidates mostly came from the Kurdish south-east of the country.
Candidates
Not all of these candidates are BDP politicians.
The following candidates were imprisoned due to the investigation into the
- Diyarbakır: Hatip Dicle
- Van: Kemal Aktaş
- Şırnak: Selma Irmak, Faysal Sarıyıldız
- Şanlıurfa: İbrahim Ayhan
- Mardin: Gülseren Yıldırım.[5]
Elected members
- Adana: Murat Bozlak
- Ağrı: Halil Aksoy
- Batman: Bengi Yıldız, Ayla Akat Ata
- Bingöl: İdris Baluken
- Bitlis: Hüsamettin Zenderlioğlu
- Diyarbakır: Leyla Zana,
Hatip Dicle, Emine Ayna, Nursel Aydoğan, Altan Tan, Şerafettin Elçi - Hakkari: Selahattin Demirtaş, Adil Kurt, Esat Canan
- Iğdır: Pervin Buldan
- Levent Tüzel, Sırrı Süreyya Önder, Sebahat Tuncel
- Kars: Mülkiye Birtane
- Mardin: Ahmet Türk, Gülser Yıldırım, Erol Dora
- Mersin: Ertuğrul Kürkçü
- Muş: Sırrı Sakık, Demir Çelik
- Siirt: Gültan Kışanak
- Şanlıurfa: İbrahim Binici, İbrahim Ayhan
- Şırnak: Hasip Kaplan, Selma Irmak, Faysal Sarıyıldız
- Van: Kemal Aktaş, Özdal Üçer, Nazmi Gür, Aysel Tuğluk
Votes won by participating parties elsewhere
Party | Votes | Seats | ||||
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Votes | Percentage | Swing | Elected | Seat ±
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Labour Party | 32,128 |
0.07% |
0.01% |
0 |
0
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See also
- 24th Parliament of Turkey
- Electoral system of Turkey
- Peoples' Democratic Congress
- Peace and Democracy Party
- Kurdish nationalism
- Thousand Hope Candidates
References
- ^ "BDP adaylarını açıkladı - Politika Haberleri". Radikal. Retrieved 2015-07-23.
- ^ "BDP'de kadınlar olmadan alınan karar geçersiz". Milliyet. Archived from the original on 20 September 2011. Retrieved 18 June 2015.
- ^ "KÜRT SEÇİM BLOKU NEDEN OLUŞMADI". Rights and Freedoms Party. Archived from the original on 15 April 2011. Retrieved 18 June 2015.
- ^ "Halkın İstanbul Adayları Başvurularını Yaptı". 18 June 2015. 8 June 2014. Retrieved 18 June 2015.
- ^ "Ergenekon, Balyoz ve KCK davalarında yargılanan adaylar". Haber Aktuel. Archived from the original on 18 June 2015. Retrieved 18 June 2015.
External links
- EMEP official website
- The BDP, having been dissolved in 2014 and replaced by the Democratic Regions Party, no longer has an active website.