candidates who applied for selection by the party leadership were chosen in early april. key candidates such as kamer genç, hüseyin aygün and umut oran failed to make the party lists. a female armenian candidate and a romani candidate were both amongst the chp lists, with the potential to become the first female armenian and romani mp in the history of the turkish republic. a chp i̇stanbul mp who failed to secure renomination, faik tunay, claimed that he would make revelations about his party in a press conference. şafak pavey, who initially did not seek renomination, was persuaded to stand again as a chp candidate and was selected as the chp's first candidate in i̇stanbul's 1st electoral district.