page_title: Peoples' Democratic Party (Turkey)
section_title: Split with the Labour Party
hierarchical_section_title: Peoples' Democratic Party (Turkey) / Development / Split with the Labour Party
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Photo de Levent Tüzel
context_page_description: The Peoples' Democratic Party, or Democratic Party of the Peoples, is a pro-minority political party in Turkey. Generally left-wing, the party places a strong emphasis on participatory and radical democracy, feminism, minority rights, youth rights and egalitarianism. It is an associate member of the Party of European Socialists and a consultative member of the Socialist International.
  Aspiring to fundamentally challenge the existing Turkish-Kurdish divide and other existing parameters in Turkish politics, the HDP was founded in 2012 as the political wing of the Peoples' Democratic Congress, a union of numerous left-wing movements that had previously fielded candidates as independents to bypass the 10% election threshold. The HDP is in an alliance with the Kurdish Democratic Regions Party, often described as the HDP's fraternal party. From 2013 to 2015, the HDP participated in peace negotiations between the Turkish government and the Kurdistan Workers' Party. The ruling AKP accuses the HDP of having direct links with the PKK.
  The party operates a co-presidential system of leadership, with one chairman and one chairwoman.
context_section_description: The Labour Party (EMEP) had been a member of the Peoples' Democratic Congress and had participated in the establishment of the HDP in 2012. However, the EMEP released a statement on 17 June 2014, announcing a split with the HDP. The split was attributed to the restructuring of the Kurdish nationalist Peace and Democracy Party into a local-only party under the new name Democratic Regions Party (DBP), while the BDP's parliamentary caucus would be integrated into the HDP. This would, in turn, require the HDP's constitution to be altered in order to ensure greater compliance and conformity with the ideology of the BDP. This caused the EMEP to formally announce their secession from the HDP, but stated that they would continue their participation with the HDK. Despite the split, the Labour Party endorsed the HDP presidential candidate Selahattin Demirtaş for the 2014 presidential election and also announced that they would not be running in the June 2015 general election.
caption: Labour Party founder Abdullah Levent Tüzel joined the HDP parliamentary caucus despite party's split with the HDP
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