Özcan Purçu, who is expected to become the first ever Roma politician in the Turkish Parliament, has said he opted to be nominated from the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) as the ruling Justice and Development Party's (AKP) "Roma initiative" ultimately failed. "The government is not sincere," the 37-year-old politician from the western province of İzmir said in an interview with daily Hürriyet. Purçu was also nominated by the CHP in the 2011 general elections, but did not manage to get elected as he was the 11th candidate in the second district list. The higher rank he has been nominated for in upcoming June 7 elections means that his election is almost guaranteed, considering the local voting base and recent polls. "For the first time in 92 years, a Roma politician will enter the Turkish Grand National Assembly as a deputy" he told Hürriyet in his home in İzmir's Gültepe neighborhood, where many Roma reside.
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