Musa Farisoğulları was elected as a HDP (People's Democratic Party) MP from Diyarbakir province in the June 24, 2018 election. An educator by profession and a political prisoner during 1980-90s in Turkey, he is currently a Co-Chair Council member of the Democratic Society Congress (DTK). He has several criminal charges against him, including those connected to Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) operations and, most recently, to his attending the funeral of a PKK guerrilla.