The Peace and Democracy Party (Turkish: Barış ve Demokrasi Partisi, Kurdish: Partiya Aştî û Demokrasiyê, BDP) was a Kurdish political party in Turkey existing from 2008 to 2014.

[4] The Deputy Chairs were Pervin Buldan and İdris Baluken.

[6] After municipal elections on 30 March 2014, Berivan Elif Kilic became the co-mayor of Kocaköy, a farming town of 17,000 people in Turkey’s Kurdish region.

Kilic shared the post of mayor with her male running mate, Affullah Kar, a former Imam.

Under BDP party rules, all top positions are split between a man and a woman, in an effort to promote women’s participation in politics.