A demonstrator holds a scarf with an image of Selahattin Demirtas, a jailed former co-leader of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) in Istanbul, Turkey, March 20, 2021. Reuters.
A demonstrator holds a scarf with an image of Selahattin Demirtas, a jailed former co-leader of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) in Istanbul, Turkey, March 20, 2021. Reuters.

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Kurdish former political party leader who insulted Erdogan faces life in jail

Selahattin Demirtas faces the longest sentence given to date on the charge of insulting the president

Reuters

March 23, 2021

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