Ethnic Armenian opposition MP of Turkey Garo Paylan is running for another term in the country’s parliament in the upcoming June 24 elections, Armenpress reports.
Paylan is nominated by the HDP party, but this time the ethnic Armenian lawmaker is running from Diyarbakir, unlike the previous time when he ran from Istanbul.
There are currently three ethnic Armenian MPs in the Turkish parliament – Paylan, Selina Dogan (CHP) and Margar Yesayan from the ruling AK party.
Dogan has already dropped out of the upcoming elections.