Party of women, HDP, at parliament
NEWS DESK (DİHA) - Although election results are not final, the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) looks to be sending 31 women candidates to Parliament. The party ran a 48% women list, according to its principle of gender parity.
The women representatives range from defenders of headscarf rights to socialists and storied feminists to veterans of the Kurdish women's struggle. The female MPs are as follows:
Adana: Meral Danış Beştaş
Ağrı: Leyla Zana and Dirayet Taşdemir
Bitlis: Mizgin Irgat
Bursa: Asiye Kolçak
Diyarbakır: Nursel Aydoğan, Feleknas Uca, Sibel Yiğitalp and Çağlar Demirel
Erzurum: Seher Akçınar Bayar
Hakkari: Selma Irmak
Kars: Şafak Özanli
Mersin: Çilem Öz
İstanbul: Pervin Buldan, Beyza Üstün, Filiz Kerestecioğlu and Hüda Kaya
Mardin: Gülser Yıldırım and Enise Güneyli
Muş: Burcu Çelik
Siirt: Hatice Seviptekin
Dersim: Edibe Şahin
Urfa: Dilek Öcalan and Leyla Güven
Van: Figen Yüksekdağ (HDP general co-chair), Yurdusev Özsökmenler and Tuğba Hazer
Batman: Saadet Becerikli and Ayşe Acar Başaran
Şırnak: Leyla Birlik and Aycan İrmez
Iğdır: Kıznaz Türkeli
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