Following the visit, Bakırhan addressed the press, confirming that Demirtaş is in good health and remains actively engaged in ...

The Council of Europe Committee of Ministers should direct Turkey to release the Kurdish opposition politician Selahattin Demirtaş in compliance with a European Court of Human Rights judgment ...

Turkey must ensure the immediate release from detention of an opposition politician, Selahattin Demirtaş, following a European Court of Human Rights’ Grand Chamber ruling on December 22, 2020.

"The Demirtaş case is one of many in which the Turkish state is abusing the criminal law to silence political opponents and gradually dismantle democracy. By refusing to follow an explicit release ...

For more than four years, Selahattin Demirtaş, the writer and former co-chair of Turkey’s People’s Democratic Party (HDP), who in 2014 and 2018 ran in the country’s presidential elections ...

Click to read the article in Turkish. The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) Grand Chamber ruled on December 22 that Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtaş should be immediately released from ...

The Center for Kurdish Progress has launched a petition demanding freedom for former HDP Co-Chair Selahattin Demirtaş, who has been behind bars in Edirne Prison since November 2016 despite an ECtHR ...

Europe's top human rights court has ordered Turkey to immediately release Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtaş from prison after more than four years of detention. The European Court of Human ...

Demirtaş, the former co-chair of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), has been in pre-trial detention since November 2016 on various spurious charges, many terrorism-related. The ECtHR ...

Selahattin Demirtaş was until 11 February 2018 the co-chair of the HDP: the HDP operates a co-leadership system to make sure women and men have an equal voice.

The man who stands to shape Turkey’s historic election next month — in which President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is seeking to consolidate his 20 year grip on power — is running his campaign from a prison ...

Haber Merkezi – AK Parti Diyarbakır Eski İl Başkanı Mehmet Şerif Aydın, “Selahattin Demirtaş ve Leyla Zana ile siyaseten muhattap olmak ülkenin faydasına olacaktır. Tahliye kararı ...