The 51-year-old Demirtas is one of Turkey's best-known Kurdish politicians. As the former co-chairman of the pro-Kurdish HDP ...

Russia on Monday extradited a former representative of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) in Erbil to Turkey ...

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TURKEY’S pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP) party announced a boycott of parliament yesterday over the arrest of its co-chairs and seven MPs. In the south-eastern city of Diyarbakir, ...

"The Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) wanted to enlist Russia’s support very much because a true civil war has broken out in southeastern Turkey. The Kurds need external support," Bagdasarov ...

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Selahattin Demirtas - Selahattin Demirtas, 51, former presidential candidate and figurehead of Turkey's then-main pro-Kurdish HDP party, was arrested in 2016 with the country still in the throes of a ...