Journalist MP Candidates

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Political parties, which have qualified to enter the Parliamentary election on June 24, 2018, submitted their complete lists of MP candidates to the Supreme Election Council yesterday (May 21).

Seven political parties have nominated 31 journalists as MP candidates.

The Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) has nominated 4 journalists and the Republican People's Party (CHP) has nominated 5 journalists as MP candidates while 6 journalists have been nominated by the İYİ Party, 4 journalists by the Justice and Development Party (AKP), 7 journalists by the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), 2 journalists by the Felicity Party (SP) and 3 journalists by the Patriotic Party.

The list of journalists nominated as MP candidates is as follows:

Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP)

Ahmet Şık (former reporter of Cumhuriyet newspaper): İstanbul, 2nd region, 1st place

Rumet Serhat (journalist): Bolu, 3rd place

Tayip Temel (Editor-in-Chief of Azadiya Welat newspaper): Van, 5th place

Tuma Çelik (Editor-in-Chief of Sabro newspaper): Mardin, 3rd place

Republican People's Party (CHP)

Enis Berberoğlu (arrested journalist, MP): İstanbul, 2nd region, 1st place

Utku Çakırözer (journalist, MP): Eskişehir, 1st place

Yüksel Mansur Kılınç (Board Chairperson of Yön Radio): İstanbul, 2nd region, 5th place

Atilla Sertel (MP): İzmir, 2nd region, 4th place

Tuncay Özkan (MP): İzmir, 1st region, 1st place

İYİ Party

Mehmet Tezkan (columnist at Milliyet newspaper): İzmir, 1st region, 3rd place

Ayşe Sucu (columnist at Sözcü newspaper): Ankara, 3rd region, 5th place

Ahmet Çelik (Grant Holder of Yeniçağ newspaper): İstanbul, 1st region, 2nd place

Serpil Aslantürk (presenter at AS TV in Bursa): Bursa, 2nd region, 4th place

Sami Altınkaya (presenter at Bloomberg TV channel): Isparta, 3rd place

Vedat Yenerer (war correspondent, journalist and columnist): İstanbul, 2nd region, 9th place

Justice and Development Party (AKP)

Ayşe Böhürler (columnist at Yeni Şafak newspaper): İstanbul, 2nd region, 16th place

Markar Esayan (columnist at Akşam newspaper): İstanbul, 2nd region, 11th place

Sabri Balaman (presenter at Akit TV): İstanbul, 1st region, 21st place

Tülay Kaynarca (member of Journalists' Union of Turkey and Press Council, MP): İstanbul, 3rd region, 5th place

Nationalist Movement Party (MHP)

İsmail Özdemir (columnist at Ortadoğu newspaper): Kayseri, 1st place

Şükrü Alnıaçık (journalist): Ankara, 3rd region, 4th place

Süleyman Pehlivan (journalist): Balıkesir, 9th place

Gökhan Çelik (journalist): İzmir, 1st region, 12th place

Rıfat Açıkgöz (journalist): Kayseri, 7th place

Temel Irmak (journalist): Muğla, 7th place

Abdullah Alpdağ (journalist): Kilis, 2nd place

Felicity Party (SP)

Mustafa Yılmaz (Milli Gazete newspaper representative to Ankara): Balıkesir, 1st place

Fikret Bayram (journalist): Bursa, 2nd region, 2nd place

Patriotic Party

Şule Perinçek (journalist): İstanbul, 1st region, 2nd place

Deniz Yıldırım (former Editor-in-Chief of Aydınlık newspaper): İstanbul, 2nd region, 6th place

İlker Yücel (Editor-in-Chief of Aydınlık newspaper): İstanbul, 2nd region, 6th place

(AS/SD)