Ali Haydar Konca

Konca was one of the three HDP Members of Parliament offered a role in the interim election government that was formed by Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu after President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan called for a new election in November 2015. The HDP, with 80 MPs in Parliament, was entitled to three Ministries in the interim election government, which will oversee the November 2015 election. In the ministerial appointments confirmed on 28 August 2015, Konca was appointed as the Minister of European Union Affairs and concurrently serves as the Chief Negotiator in the Turkish EU membership negotiations.

While serving as a Minister, Ali Haydar Konca stated that in 1915, a massacre of Armenians took place in what it known as the Armenian Genocide.[7] Konca was subsequently prosecuted for allegedly spreading a libelous and hateful message.[8]

On 22 September 2015, Konca and the other HDP cabinet minister Müslüm Doğan submitted their resignations to Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, who accepted and stated that he would appoint their replacements as a matter of urgency.[9] In a press conference shortly after submitting their resignations, the two ministers stated that they had resigned due to disagreements in the interim election cabinet and accused the AKP of ignoring the democratic will of the people to instead create a 'concept of war' in the south-east.[10] They also condemned the AKP's involvement in the dissolution of the Solution process between the government and the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and accused President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of violating the Constitution during the government-forming process.[11][12]

Konca was succeeded as European Union Affairs Minister by academic Beril Dedeoğlu.[13]