18/05/2023 | Writer: Selma Koçak
Trans women Esmeray Özadikti, Talya Aydın and Niler Albayrak, who were nominated from TİP, were not elected. TİP is on the anvil of routing four members to the parliament.
Following the Presidential and Parliamentary election held on May 14, the Presidential election heads to a run-off on May 28, according to the tentative election results. None of the candidates were able to receive the absolute majority of the votes.
The parliamentary arithmetic was also finalized. Peoples’ Alliance including Justice and Development Party (AKP), Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), New Welfare Party (YRP), Great Unity Party (BBP) and supported by Free Cause Party (HÜDA-PAR) by being nominated under the lists of AKP, obtained 312 out of 600 seats with 49 percent of the vote. 312 members of Nation’s Alliance, as a result of receiving 35 percent of the votes, will be in the parliament. And Labor and Freedom Alliance, which is the only alliance announcing its support to LGBTI+ rights, will be represented in the parliament by 66 members with 10,5 percent of the votes.
Workers’ Party of Turkey (TİP), one of the components of Labor and Freedom Alliance, was the only political party who nominated openly LGBTI+s as parliamentary candidates in their lists. TİP is on the anvil of routing four parliamentary members to the parliament, three of them are from İstanbul. Trans women Esmeray Özadikti, Talya Aydın and Niler Albayrak, who were nominated from TİP, were not elected.
Three candidates were all from İstanbul
Esmeray Özadikti, a trans woman, an activist and a performer, was nominated for the 3rd place in the İstanbul 2nd electoral district. Trans woman activist Niler Albayrak was nominated for the 11th place in the İstanbul 3rd electoral district. And Talya Aydın was nominated as a parliamentary candidate for the 18th place in the İstanbul 2nd electoral district.
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