key individuals who have applied to become chp parliamentary candidates have included the president of the turkish bars association metin feyzioğlu and the head of the journalists' association atilla serter. both have applied to become candidates in i̇zmir's second electoral district. the leader of the rize anatolian school family union osman erdoğan, a relative of recep tayyip erdoğan, defected from the akp to the chp in early 2015.