Selahattin Demirtaş

Supporters of imprisoned Selahattin Demirtas, presidential candidate of the People's Democratic Party (HDP) hold up his picture in Istanbul, June 2018. Photo: EPA-EFE/SEDAT SUNA

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Peoples' Democratic Party supporters at a rally in Geneva, April 2021. Photo: EPA-EFE/SALVATORE DI NOLFI

"Regardless of whether the presidential candidate is affiliated with the HDP or not, we believe that we need to discuss principles and methods rather than the names of potential candidates,"  the HDP declaration said.

Omer Faruk Gergerlioglu. Photo: Gergerlioglu's personal archieve

"We are right, we are strong and we will win. We have won with resistance." Gergerlioglu said defiantly at a press conference held at the HDP headquarters in Ankara on Tuesday night.

Supporters shout slogans against the government at a march protesting the arrest of People's Democratic Party HDP parliamentarians in Istanbul, June 18, 2020. Photo: EPA-EFE/SEDAT SUNA

According to the HDP, the man fired several times, damaging the building and then took party staffer Deniz Poyraz hostage and later killed her.

A former co-chair of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HPD) was sentenced to three-and-half years in prison on March 22 for insulting the Turkish president.

Selahattin Demirtaş, who attended the hearing at Istanbul's Bakırköy 46th Criminal Court of First Instance via video link, incurred the sentence for publicly insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

HDP supporters at an anti-government march after the arrest of pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democtaric Party HDP parliamentarians, 18 June 2020. Photo: EPA-EFE/SEDAT SUNA

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has met a delegation of the opposition Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) led by co-chair Mithat Sancar to discuss a wide range of issues regarding Turkey, including the opposition's efforts to shift back to the parliamentary system.

The Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) Chair Devlet Bahçeli has asked the Supreme Court of Appeals' Chief Public Prosecutor's Office to file a closure case against the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), based on the indictment of the Oct. 6-8 Kobane protests accepted by the Ankara 22nd Heavy Penal Court.

A Turkish penal court approved indictments for 108 defendants on Jan. 7, including former co-chairs of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) as part of a probe into deadly 2014 terror incidents across the nation.