by TurkeyPurge | Nov 22, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
A delegation of European politicians was not allowed to pay a visit to the imprisoned co-chair of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), Selahattin Demirtaş, in Edirne on Monday. The group, led by Sergei Staishev, president of the Party of European Socialists, the...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 8, 2016 | Hate Crime
Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) co-chairperson Selahattin Demirtaş is being kept in a solitary confinement in Edirne Prison for psychological torture, Aysel Tuğluk, a lawyer representing the politician, said on Tuesday. In a series of messages from...