Sirri Sureyya Onder

Sırrı Süreyya Önder is a Turkish film director, actor, screenwriter, columnist and politician. Elected to parliament in 2011 as an independent backed by the Peace and Democracy Party, he later joined the party even though he is not from a Kurdish descent. He competed in the 2014 municipal elections as the Istanbul mayoral candidate of the Peoples' Democratic Party, the sister party of the BDP, coming third with 412,875 votes.