The imprisoned former leader of the pro-Kurdish opposition Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) responded to the Turkish President’s remark that “he is not Kurdish.” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told a crowd in the Kurdish-majority city ...
Former Co-Chair of Pro-Kurdish HDP Selahattin Demirtas was sentenced on Friday to 2.5 years in prison for “targeting public officials involved in the fight against terrorism”, over his remarks about the former Ankara Chief Public ...
The Council of Europe’s (CoE) Committee of Ministers once again urged Turkish authorities to comply with the rulings of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) and release Selahattin Demirtas, the former co-chair of the ...