Moreover, Selahattin Demirtaş, a prominent figure in the Kurdish political movement and a former presidential candidate, has been imprisoned for years. Undoubtedly, İmamoğlu represents a far more ...

The former Kurdish presidential candidate and party co-leader Selahattin Demirtaş has been jailed since 2016. More than 150 Kurdish mayors have been removed during this same period.

Demirtaş, who was arrested during Erdoğan’s crackdown on political opposition after an attempted coup in 2016, was charged with “terrorist propaganda” and “undermining state unity”.

Selahattin Demirtaş, a charismatic Kurdish opposition leader who challenged Erdoğan for the presidency, has been in prison since 2016, despite a European Court of Human Rights ruling that he was ...

The Arab Spring and its consequences, particularly in Syria, were inseparable from the catastrophe that engulfed Turkey in the 2010s. In this crucial period, Turkey was both a protagonist and a victim ...

Comma Press and PEN International have spoken out after the Turkish-Kurdish politician and author Selahattin Demirtaş was handed a 42-year prison sentence for inciting protests in 2014.

HDP’s former leader Selahattin Demirtaş, who has been imprisoned since 2016, was sentenced to 42 years in prison on charges including “helping to destroy the unity and integrity of the state ...

Supporters of imprisoned Selahattin Demirtaş, holding up his picture during an election campaign in Istanbul in 2018. Sedat Suna / EPA The repression of Kurds extends into everyday politics.

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 ...

Selahattin Demirtaş, who led the leftwing Peoples’ Democratic party (HDP), Turkey’s third-biggest political group, before he was jailed in 2016 on charges of supporting terrorism, said a ...

Turkey’s opposition is confident it can unfreeze European Union accession talks and will end Ankara’s veto on NATO membership for Sweden and Finland, if it beats President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in the ...