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About Mrs. Kerestecioglu,
As a candidate for the Peoples' Democratic Party, Kerestecioğlu was elected as a Member of Parliament for İstanbul's second electoral district in the June 2015 general election.She was re-elected in the November 2015 snap general election despite her party's fall in the vote share.
Kerestecioğlu is a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) and currently serves as the third vice president of the PACE Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination.
On 18 April 2018, following President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's call for a snap general election, Kerestecioğlu was rumoured to be a potential HDP candidate for the presidential election. She denied a potential presidential run on the same day.But she was re-elected as an MP in the snap elections in June 2018.On the 17 March 2021, the State Prosecutor for the Court of Cassation in Turkey Bekir Şahin filed a lawsuit before the Constitutional Court, demanding for Kerestecioğlu and 686 other politicians of the HDP a five-year ban for a political participation.[9] The lawsuit was filed jointly with a request for the HDP to be shut down due to the parties alleged organizational ties with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
Source: Wikipedia
