Even Erdoğan backs the release of Turkey’s brightest opposition leader. So why is he still in jail? | Kaya Genç
Selahattin Demirtaş lit up the Turkish left in 2014, but was imprisoned for ‘terrorist propaganda’. His freedom would mark a new political era A decade and a half ago, a promising figure emerged on Turkey’s political scene: Selahattin Demirtaş. A tall, talented, human rights lawyer then still in his 30s, a founder of…
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Even Erdoğan backs the release of Turkey’s brightest opposition leader. So why is he still in jail? | Kaya Genç
Selahattin Demirtaş lit up the Turkish left in 2014, but was imprisoned for ‘terrorist propaganda’. His freedom would mark a new political era A decade and a half ago, a promising figure emerged on Turkey’s political scene: Selahattin Demirtaş. A tall, talented, human rights lawyer then still in his 30s, a founder of…
