Selahattin Demirtaş, former co-chair of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), was among MPs jailed on November 4, 2016. His vacant seat in the general assembly of Turkey’s parliament is shown ...

Selahattin Demirtaş, former co-chair of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), was among MPs jailed on November 4, 2016. His vacant seat in the general assembly of Turkey’s parliament is shown ...

The ruling stated that Turkey’s Constitutional Court had failed to provide effective oversight, contributing to the violation ...

Do the same things apply to Turkey as well? Yes. The same sanctions and process will apply to Turkey if Selahattin Demirtaş is not released. When the first ECtHR decision for Demirtaş was not ...

A group of Kurdish militants has begun laying down its weapons after promising to disarm in a peace process designed to end the four-decade insurgency against the Turkish state.

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 ...

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 | Free Expression & the Law This article is more than 3 years old P24 Platform for Independent Journalism 22 December 2020 3 minute read A supporter of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party ...

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 ...

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 ...

The first time I met Selahattin Demirtaş, the leader of Turkey’s largest Kurdish political party, known as the H.D.P., he arrived at a restaurant in Istanbul with a single assistant ...

The prolonged and unlawful detention of Selahattin Demirtaş constitutes a serious breach of his human rights and represents a deepening of the rule of law crisis in Turkey. The Turkish authorities ...