İdris Baluken (born 2 July 1976) is a Kurdish politician who currently serves as a parliamentary group leader of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) since April 2014.

He has been a Member of Parliament for the electoral district of Diyarbakır since the June 2015 general election, having previously served as an MP for Bingöl from 2011 to 2015.

[1] Baluken was fielded as an Independent candidate in the electoral district of Bingöl by the Labour, Democracy and Freedom Bloc for the 2011 general election.

[3][4] He was a member of the Imrali delegation of HDP politicians facilitating peace negotiations between the PKK and the Turkish Government which until 28 February 2015 led to the Dolmabahce Statement.

[8] In June 2016 he voiced disappointment to the lack of a solution in the controversy around the accusations of a forged university certificate from the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan.