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Pınar Aydınlar
Pınar Aydınlar (born 12 February 1979 in Istanbul) is a Turkish singer and politician. She has recorded several albums and also performed during the electoral campaigns of the HDP. In 2014, she was a mayoral candidate for Istanbul for the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP). Musical career She began to play the baglama when she was thirteen years of age. She graduated from the State Conservatory for Turkish Music of the Technical University of Istanbul in 1995. In 2003 Aydınlar released an album called ''Türkü Söylemek Lazım'' and two more in 2011. Political career She is a well known supporter of the Peoples Democratic Party, being its Mayoral candidate together with Sirri Süreyya Önder in the local elections of March 2014 and also as a candidate for Izmir in the parliamentary elections 2015. She performed at the electoral campaign of the HDP in Ankara and is also a signatory of demand of release of the HDP politician and Human Rights Activist Ömer Faruk Ger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halkların Demokratik Partisi
The Peoples' Democratic Party ( Turkish: ''Halkların Demokratik Partisi'', acronymized as HDP; Kurdish: ''Partiya Demokratîk a Gelan''), or Democratic Party of the Peoples, is a Turkish political party mainly representing ethnic minorities in Turkey, especially Kurds. 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 (PES), a consultative member of the Socialist International, and a party within the Progressive Alliance (PA). 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 De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
