Peace and Democracy Party
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Peace and Democracy Party
Barış ve Demokrasi Partisi Partiya Aştî û Demokrasiyê |
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| Leader |
Pervin Buldan İdris Baluken (co-chair) |
| Founded | 3 May 2008 |
| Dissolved | 11 July 2014 |
| Preceded by | Democratic Society Party |
| Succeeded by |
Peoples' Democratic Party Democratic Regions Party |
| Headquarters | Ankara, Turkey |
| Ideology |
Kurdish minority rights Emancipation of women Kurdish nationalism |
| Political position | Centre-left to Left-wing |
| European affiliation | Party of European Socialists (observer) |
| International affiliation | Socialist International (consultative) |
The Peace and Democracy Party (Turkish: Barış ve Demokrasi Partisi, Kurdish: Partiya Aştî û Demokrasiyê, BDP) was a Kurdish political party in Turkey existing from 2008 to 2014.
BDP succeeded the Democratic Society Party (DTP) in 2008, following the closure of the latter party for its alleged connections with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). The BDP is co-chaired by Selahattin Demirtaş and Gültan Kışanak. One-third of its representatives are Alevi.
The Deputy Chairs are Pervin Buldan and İdris Baluken.
After municipal elections on 30 March 2014, Berivan Elif Kilic became the co-mayor of Kocakoy, a farming town of 17,000 people in Turkey’s Kurdish region. Kilic shares the post of mayor with her male running mate, Affullah Kar, a former imam. Under BDP party rules, all top positions are split between a man and a woman, in an effort to promote women’s participation in politics.
The party chairman has called for the PKK to disarm. The BDP has observer status in the Socialist International. BDP supports Turkey's membership in the European Union,same-sex marriages in Turkey, an anti-discrimination law to protect LGBT people and also wants the Government of Turkey to recognize the Armenian Genocide.
Pro-minority rights and feminist Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) acted as the fraternal party to BDP. At the 2014 municipal elections, HDP ran parallel to BDP, with the BDP running in Turkey's Kurdish-dominated southeast while the HDP competed in the rest of the country except Mersin Province and Konya Province where BDP launched its own candidates.
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