The submission focuses on the stark failure of Turkey to implement Selahattin Demirtaş v.Turkey (No.2) (Application no. 14305/17) European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) Grand Chamber judgment of ...

The Turkish government should abide by international law and implement the binding judgments of the European Court of Human Rights by immediately releasing politicians Selahattin Demirtaş and ...

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 ...

Click to read the article in Turkish. The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) Grand Chamber ruled on December 22 that Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtaş should be immediately released from ...

Demirtaş, the former co-chair of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), has been in pre-trial detention since November 2016 on various spurious charges, many terrorism-related. The ECtHR ...

The Center for Kurdish Progress has launched a petition demanding freedom for former HDP Co-Chair Selahattin Demirtaş, who has been behind bars in Edirne Prison since November 2016 despite an ECtHR ...

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 ...

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 ...

The former Kurdish presidential candidate and party co-leader Selahattin Demirtaş has been jailed since 2016. More than 150 Kurdish mayors have been removed during this same period.

Turkey’s anti-Erdoğan opposition vows a reset on EU and NATO Top opposition adviser also pledges the release of two top Erdoğan opponents: Selahattin Demirtaş and Osman Kavala. Listen AI generated ...

Haber Merkezi – Selahattin Demirtaş, vefat eden tarihçi, doktor ve siyasetçi Tarık Ziya Ekinci için mesaj yayımladı. Mesajda, “Onun hayallerini gerçekleştirmek için her daim ...

"The Demirtaş case is one of many in which the Turkish state is abusing the criminal law to silence political opponents and gradually dismantle democracy. By refusing to follow an explicit release ...