Tag: Selahaddin Demirtas
Jailed Kurdish politician Demirtaş urges support for opposition’s İstanbul mayoral candidate
18th June 2019
Former co-chairperson of the Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Selahattin Demirtaş, who has been behind bars since November 2016, has called on his party’s base to support the opposition’s mayoral candidate in İstanbul, Ekrem İmamoğlu, ...
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I’m in prison. But my party still scored big in Turkey’s elections.
19th April 2019
By Selahattin Demirtas Selahattin Demirtas is an ex-member of the Turkish parliament and a former co-leader of the Peoples’ Democratic Party of Turkey. He is imprisoned in Edirne High Security Prison. Turkey’s recent local elections on March 31 ...
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When a simple-looking painting, sentence, song lyric, melody, or photograph gently brushes over a wound that will never heal, our understanding of it may come as a jolt. Ever since I saw that hand reaching ...