According to the Armenian MP Selina Dogan, candidate for the opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) in Turkey’s parliamentary elections who managed to enter the parliament, CHP accepts that there are certain question related to the past which need to be confronted, Azatutyun reports.

The CHP was founded by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk in 1923.  After joining the Social Democratic People’s Party (SHP) in 1995, CHP has been considered as an influential centrist left party.

In an interview given to Ermenihaber, Selina Dogan said that the CHP is in the process of changing as is Turkey’s society. “Currently this is carried out by recruiting new staff, as well as by proposing representatives of different sectors and women. I’m also part of the change and consider this logical. Let nobody doubt my Armenian descent. I’m also positively received by the party members. There was a bit of recalcitrance in the beginning, but now everything is all right,” Dogan said.

According to her, freedom of speech is one of the questions the party attaches greatest importance to.

“As an Armenian MP, I will naturally bring the issues regarding Armenians to the parliamentary agenda. In contrast to the other MPs, I’m better informed of the concerns of the Armenian community: I grew up in that community, after all,” Selina Dogan said.

She also said that CHP is inclined to normalize the relations with all the neighbor states.