Peoples' Democratic Party
Pluralist leftist Turkish political party
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| August 27 2023 | Cahit Kırkazak and Sultan Özcan become the latest co-chairs of the HDP, succeeding Mithat Sancar. |
| March 24 2023 | The party decided to enter the 2023 Turkish general election by running candidates on the Green Left Party lists. |
| March 22 2023 | The HDP (Peoples' Democratic Party) declared they will not field a presidential candidate for the 2023 Turkish presidential election, instead focusing on campaigning against Erdoğan's rule and supporting the Republican People's Party (CHP) candidate Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu. |
| March 2021 | HDP defended itself against potential prohibition, with the case ultimately being dropped. |
| March 17 2021 | Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu was stripped of parliamentary membership due to a 2016 tweet supporting peace negotiations with the PKK. On the same day, the state prosecutor filed a lawsuit demanding closure of the HDP and a five-year political ban for 687 HDP politicians, including former party leaders Selahattin Demirtaş and Figen Yüksekdağ. |
| January 2021 | A raid occurred on the HDP office in Esenyurt, Istanbul, leading to tensions between the HDP and government officials. |
| December 2020 | HDP co-deputy head Salim Kaplan reported that since 2016, 20,000 members were taken into custody and over 10,000 members and executives were sent to jail, with 48 municipalities seized by the government. |
| September 2020 | Turkish Government ordered detention of Kars Mayor Ayhan Bilgen and other prominent HDP figures like former MPs Ayla Akat Ata and Sırri Süreyya Önder, due to their support of the 2014 Kobani protests. |
| February 23 2020 | At the 4th Congress of the Peoples' Democratic Party, Mithat Sancar becomes co-chair of the HDP alongside Pervin Buldan. |
| 2019 | HDP participated in local elections with party leaders Sezai Temelli and Pervin Buldan, securing 2,409,485 votes (5.60% of the total). |
| August 11 2018 | HDP deputy Mahmud Togrul was sentenced to prison for making terror propaganda. |
| March 1 2018 | HDP deputy Dilek Öcalan, niece of PKK founding leader Abdullah Öcalan, was sentenced to two years and six months in prison for making terror propaganda. |
| February 11 2018 | Sezai Temelli and Pervin Buldan are elected as co-chairs of the HDP, succeeding Serpil Kemalbay. |
| March 9 2017 | Serpil Kemalbay becomes sole chair of the HDP, replacing Selahattin Demirtaş and Figen Yüksekdağ. |
| 2016 | HDP strongly opposed the Turkish coup attempt and was subsequently marginalized in the post-coup national truce. |
| November 2016 | Several HDP parliamentarians were imprisoned, including party co-chairs Selahattin Demirtaş and Figen Yüksekdağ, significantly disrupting the party's political activities. |
| September 2016 | The Turkish judiciary began submitting HDP elected officials to anti-terrorism accusations. |
| June 5 2016 | Turkish Interior Ministry announced that 130 people suspected of militant links will lose citizenship unless they return to Turkey within three months, including three HDP leaders: Faysal Sarıyıldız, Tuğba Hezer Öztürk, and an unnamed third leader. |
| May 20 2016 | Turkish Parliament voted to lift MPs' immunity, leading to prosecution of 54 out of 59 HDP MPs on terrorism-related charges. |
| 2015 | Barış Sulu became the first openly gay parliamentary candidate in Turkey, running for the HDP. |
| August 28 2015 | HDP briefly participated in the interim election government, with two MPs (Ali Haydar Konca and Müslüm Doğan) becoming ministers. |
| June 2015 | HDP successfully entered parliament by polling 13.12% in the general election, becoming the third largest parliamentary group. |
| June 7 2015 | HDP participates in the general election, breaking the 10% threshold by gaining 13.12% of votes (6,280,302 votes), securing 81 seats in the Grand National Assembly and winning in 14 electoral districts, primarily in Kurdish-majority provinces. |
| April 2015 | ISIL was completely ejected from Kobanî by this time, following the earlier protests and international intervention. |
| April 2015 | Delegations from the AKP and HDP formally met at the Prime Minister's office in Dolmabahçe Palace to discuss the peace process. |
| April 7 2015 | Deadline for potential negotiations between HDP and CHP for electoral cooperation. |
| March 2 2015 | HDP closes candidate application period for the general election. |
| February 2015 | HDP chairwoman Figen Yüksekdağ suggested a potential joint statement with the AKP regarding the solution process. |
| February 16 2015 | HDP begins receiving candidate applications for the general election, with different application fees for male, female, young, and disabled candidates. |
| January 2015 | HDP conducts an internal poll suggesting they need to gain approximately 600,000 more supporters to surpass the 10% election threshold. |
| 2014 | HDP ran parallel to BDP in local elections, with BDP competing in Kurdish-dominated southeast and HDP in the rest of the country, excluding Mersin and Konya Provinces. |
| 2014 | Pro-Kurdish protests and riots erupted in south-eastern Turkey over the lack of government intervention against ISIL's advance on Kobanî, Syria. The HDP supported the protests while advocating for non-violence. |
| 2014 | HDP first participated in local elections, running in most western Turkish provinces, with the DBP running in the Kurdish south-east. The parties combined gained 6.2% of total votes, but HDP did not win any municipalities. |
| August 28 2014 | 21 MPs from the Peace and Democracy Party (the predecessor of DBP) joined the HDP. |
| August 5 2014 | During a campaign stop in Van, Demirtaş criticized the government of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for not doing enough to advance promised legislation in the Solution process with Kurdish rebels. |
| July 2014 | BDP was re-organized as the Democratic Regions Party, focusing exclusively on local administration representation. |
| July 15 2014 | Demirtaş outlined his presidential campaign road-map, proposing significant reforms including disbanding the Presidency of Religious Affairs, removing compulsory religion lessons, recognizing Alevi houses of worship, and introducing 'People's Parliaments' to increase youth representation. |
| June 30 2014 | Selahattin Demirtaş was announced as the HDP's candidate for the Presidential election, representing the Peoples' Democratic Party. |
| June 22 2014 | Selahattin Demirtaş and Figen Yüksekdağ become co-chairs of the HDP. In the same Extraordinary Congress, Ertuğrul Kürkçü and Sebahat Tuncel are awarded Honorary President status, becoming the first co-presidents to hold this position. |
| April 28 2014 | The entire parliamentary caucus of BDP joined HDP, marking a significant organizational restructuring of the parties. |
| 2013 | The Turkish Justice and Development Party (AKP) government initiated a peace process with the PKK, involving negotiations and potential withdrawal of militants from Turkish soil. |
| October 27 2013 | Ertuğrul Kürkçü and Sebahat Tuncel replace Yavuz Önen and Fatma Gök as co-chairs of the HDP. |
| 2012 | The Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) was founded as the political wing of the Peoples' Democratic Congress, aiming to challenge existing Turkish-Kurdish political divides. |
| October 15 2012 | Yavuz Önen and Fatma Gök become the first co-chairs of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), establishing the party's unique co-presidential leadership system. |
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