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HDP: The third option is the democracy alliance

HDP: The third option is the democracy alliance

HDP Spokesperson Günay says, “We find the Democracy Alliance important not only for the elections. We want to represent the third way outside the statist blocs and to realize the dream of a democratic country in favor of peoples.”

18 February 2022

HDP Co-Chair Buldan: We know well how to ignore the ones who ignore us

HDP Co-Chair Buldan: We know well how to ignore the ones who ignore us

“The leaders of six political parties came together yesterday. All hell broke loose on social media after this meeting. Some asked why the HDP was not there. We don’t recognize the ones who don’t recognize us; let it be known,” said HDP Co-Chair Buldan.

14 February 2022

CHP Chair Kılıçdaroğlu ‘would welcome a third alliance’

CHP Chair Kılıçdaroğlu ‘would welcome a third alliance’

Main opposition leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu says that it will be “very nice” if the parties “which have failed to hold down a place” in the ruling People’s Alliance or the main opposition Nation’s Alliance form an alliance themselves.

25 January 2022

HDP to meet political parties not represented in Parliament

HDP to meet political parties not represented in Parliament

HDP Parliamentary Group Deputy Chair Oluç has announced that HDP will meet the left parties in Ankara tomorrow, on January 18. The economic policies and upcoming elections will be on their agenda, he has noted.

17 January 2022

Main opposition leader Kılıçdaroğlu to run for President ‘if alliance accepts’

Main opposition leader Kılıçdaroğlu to run for President ‘if alliance accepts’

CHP Chair Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has answered the question of “Do you want to be the President?” He has said, “I cannot speak on behalf of the alliance; but I will be honored if the alliance accepts it as well.”

15 December 2021

Workers’ Party of Turkey visits HDP: 'The need for a third alliance is now vital'

Workers’ Party of Turkey visits HDP: 'The need for a third alliance is now vital'

TİP Chair Erkan Baş has said that “the need for a third alliance has become vital” while HDP Co-Chair Mithat Sancar has noted that a third alliance will play a decisive role in building the democratic future of Turkey.

5 November 2021

'HDP is ready for dialogue with the opposition without preconditions'

CO-CHAIR MİTHAT SANCAR

'HDP is ready for dialogue with the opposition without preconditions'

Speaking amid a recent wave of detentions and arrests targeting the HDP, Co-Chair Sancar has said, “The only way to change the state of affairs is to form a broad alliance of democracy. An important item on our agenda is to meet all opposition leaders.”

30 prominent figures from Germany express support for ‘101 Grey-Haired Elders’

30 prominent figures from Germany express support for ‘101 Grey-Haired Elders’

30 people, including journalists Günter Wallraff, Can Dündar and Banu Güven, former Co-Chair of the Greens Cem Özdemir and writer Aslı Erdoğan, have expressed support for the joint calls for “a democracy alliance of all opposition forces in Turkey.”

14 September 2020