Prominent members include Murat Belge, left-wing political author and former columnist for Taraf; Kutluğ Ataman, filmmaker and contemporary artist; and Ufuk Uras, former Istanbul deputy and president of the Freedom and Solidarity Party (ÖDP).

Their chairpersons were temporarily arrested in February 2018 but released with a travel ban for the exterior and under monitoring of the police.

[3] In the 2023 parliamentary election, members of the HDK most famously the HDP ran on the YSP list because of the threat of a ban.

The party supports decentralization and advocates for significantly shifting central powers to local governments.

These are: going in and out of power through elections, respect for different identities and beliefs, socially libertarian, egalitarian, eco-minded, participatory and for the restoration of justice.