Current chairman Ahmet Turk and co-chairwoman Ayse Tugluk, who resigned from the party ahead general elections to stand as independent candidates, will not contest the ballot at the congress.
The only candidate to the party leadership is controversially outspoken Suleyman Demirtas.
Emine Ayna, a DTP parliamentary deputy for the south eastern province of Mardin, is going to stand for the position of co-chairwoman of the party.
Turk stressed that there would be change of duty after his two years in the party during the congress activities. Tugluk claimed that there was discrimination between good Kurds and bad Kurds.
DTP deputy chairwoman Selma Irmak warned saying, “We are going through a process of a razor blade. The only way to resolve this is to strengthen democracy.”
Irmak underlined that every time they opened their mouth that they encountered investigations. She went to say that the issue of one flag, country and language brought two parties against each other that instead of oneness pluralism should taken as fundamental aspect.
