Key Kurdish politician gets 42 years in jail over 2014 Turkish riots
A Turkish court on Thursday sentenced Selahattin Demirtaş, a jailed key Kurdish politician, to 42 years in jail over his alleged role in violent protests in 2014, local media reported. Demirtaş, former co-chair of the now-defunct pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), has been in pre-trial detention since 2016. He was a challenger to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in the 2018 elections. Another jailed ex-HDP co-chair, Figen Yüksekdağ, was handed just over 30 years in jail on charges of harming the unity of Turkish state and terror propaganda, among others, state news agency Anadolu repor......
May 16, 2024