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Democratic Society Party
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Democratic Society Party (In Turkish: Demokratik Toplum Partisi, DTP) is a pro-Kurdish social democratic political party, considered as the successor to the Democratic People's Party (DEHAP).
DTP is the first Turkish party to have collective leadership, it is co-presided by Ms. Aysel Tuğluk and Mr. Ahmet Türk.
The party was founded in 2005, as the merger of the DEHAP and the Democratic Society Movement (DTH). DTH was set up by the veteran Kurdish politicians, former deputies Leyla Zana, Orhan Doğan, Hatip Dicle and Selim Sadak upon their release from prison in 2004. Since its inception, the party and its leaders have faced legal harassment from the Turkish government[1] . Critics suspect the party of ties to the Kurdish separatist movement and PKK. Senior DTP leaders maintain that they support a unified Turkey.
DTP has mayors in 55 municipalities [2] , 43 of them in seven provinces in Southeastern Turkey densely inhabited by Kurds or Arabs, including the Kurdish dominated city of Diyarbakır, where the DTP mayor is Osman Baydemir.
- DTP official website
- DTP Leader calls for Kurdish alliance from soL the online newspaper.
- ^ "'Mr Ocalan' conviction in Turkey". BBC News, 6 March 2007.
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In Diyarbakır Province: 12 municipalities out of 32, including Diyarbakır Metropolitan Municipality, the districts of Bismil, Dicle, Ergani, Kocaköy, Lice, Silvan (6 districts out of 13) and other minor municipalities.
In Mardin Province: 8 municipalities out of 32 (including Dargeçit, Derik, Kızıltepe, Mazıdağı, Nusaybin among the 9 districts of the province)
In Batman Province: 5 municipalities out of 12, including Batman city, the districts of Beşiri and Gercüş (2 districts out of 5) and 2 minor municipalities.
In Şırnak Province: 5 municipalities out of 20, including Şırnak city and the districts of Beytüşşebap, Cizre, İdil, Silopi.
In Muş Province: 5 municipalities out of 28 (including Bulanık, Malazgirt and Varto among the nine districts of the province).
In Hakkari Province: 4 municipalities out of 8, including Hakkari city, 2 districts out of 3, and 1 minor municipality.
In Şanlıurfa Province: 4 municipalities out of 26 including Ceylanpınar, Suruç, Viranşehir districts.
In Siirt Province: 2 municipalities out of 13 including Kurtalan district.
In Adana Province: 2 municipalities out of 53, two minor municipalities in Seyhan and Yüreğir districts.
In Tunceli Province: 1 municipality out of 10 (Tunceli city).
In Ağrı Province: 1 municipality out of 12 (notable district of Doğubeyazıt).
One minor municipality in each of the provinces of Adıyaman, Aydın, Iğdır, Kars, Konya and Van. [2]
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