Türkiye: Kurdish Politicians Convicted in Unjust Mass Trial
May 16, 2024 · Demirtaş and Yüksekdağ, the HDP’s former co-chairs, have remained in prison ever since. The party itself is fighting a case seeking its closure before Türkiye’s Constitutional Court.
Turkey's Kurdish leaders meet jailed politician as the two sides …
Jan 11, 2025 · The meeting with Demirtas — jailed in 2016 on terrorism charges that most observers, including the European Court of Human Rights, have labelled politically motivated — took place two weeks after DEM members met Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned head of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK.
Jailed Kurdish leader seeks release from prison to contribute to …
Nov 20, 2024 · Jailed Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtaş is demanding his release from prison to contribute to a new peace process in Turkey aimed at the laying down of arms by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), Deutsche Welle’s Turkish service (DW Türkçe) reported on Tuesday, citing a lawyer.
Turkey: Pro-Kurdish leader Demirtas gets 42 years in prison
May 16, 2024 · Selahattin Demirtas, the former leader of the pro-Kurdish HDP party, has been sentenced to more than 40 years in prison in Turkey for allegedly inciting the deadly Kobani riots in 2014.
Turkey's Kurdish Leaders Meet Jailed Politician as the Two Sides …
Jan 11, 2025 · FILE - A cardboard cut-out of Selahattin Demirtas is pictured at an election kiosk in Istanbul, June 20, 2018. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File) ... the imprisoned head of the Kurdistan Workers ...
Turkey's Kurdish leaders meet jailed politician as the two ... - Yahoo
Jan 11, 2025 · Three senior figures from the Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party, or DEM, met the party’s former co-chairperson, Selahattin Demirtas, at Edirne prison near the Greek border.
Turkey convicts former pro-Kurdish party officials over 2014 …
May 16, 2024 · A Turkish court sentenced former pro-Kurdish party leader Selahattin Demirtas to more than 40 years in jail on Thursday for instigating protests in 2014 triggered by an Islamic State attack...
Turkish court hands down lengthy sentences to pro-Kurdish …
May 16, 2024 · A Turkish court on Thursday handed down lengthy prison sentences to 24 pro-Kurdish politicians after finding them guilty of multiple crimes in connection with fatal street protests a decade ago.
Europe’s top human rights court orders Turkey to release jailed Kurdish …
Dec 22, 2020 · The grand chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), the body’s highest decision-making authority, found six violations of the rights of Selahattin Demirtas, a former co-leader of the...
Selahattin Demirtaş - Wikipedia
Selahattin Demirtaş (born 10 April 1973) is a Kurdish politician, lawyer and author. [1] He was the co-leader of the left-wing pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party ... [10] an article published in the Bolu Ekspress demanded politicians of the DTP to be killed for deaths caused by the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) ...