Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party

Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party Halkların Eşitlik ve Demokrasi Partisi
Abbreviation	DEM Party (official in English)[1]
Co-Leaders	Tülay Hatimoğulları Tuncer Bakırhan
Founded	2023[a]
Merger of	Green Left Party Peoples' Democratic Party
Headquarters	Atatürk Bulvarı No:88 Daire: 16 Çankaya – Ankara
Membership (2025)	14,741[2]
Ideology	Minority rights Kurdish interests Kurdish nationalism[3][4] Regionalism Social democracy Secularism Democratic socialism Feminism Progressivism
Political position	Centre-left to left-wing
National affiliation	Peoples' Democratic Congress Labour and Freedom Alliance Kurdish Freedom and Democracy Alliance[5]
European affiliation	Party of European Socialists (associate member)[6]
Colours	Purple, Green, Yellow
Grand National Assembly	57 / 600
Metropolitan municipalities	2 / 30
Provinces	3 / 51
District municipalities	52 / 922
Belde Municipalities	9 / 390
Provincial councilors	132 / 1,282
Municipal Assemblies	1,410 / 20,953
Website
demparti.org.tr
Politics of Turkey Political parties Elections ^ HDP ran on the YSP list in May 2023, the official rebrand happened on 15 October 2023.

The Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (Kurmanji Kurdish: Partiya Wekhevî û Demokrasiya Gelan; Turkish: Halkların Eşitlik ve Demokrasi Partisi, abbreviated as DEM Party)^[7] is a pro-Kurdish political party in Turkey. It is the legal successor of the Green Left Party^[8] and with the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) handing over its work to this party in 2023, it became the latest iteration of the Kurdish minority interests party in Turkey.^{[clarification needed]}

Similarly to its predecessors, its adversaries accuse the party of being the political branch of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which is designated as a terrorist organization by Turkey.^[9]