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 ruling stated that Turkey’s Constitutional Court had failed to provide effective oversight, contributing to the violation ...

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 ...

A group of Kurdish militants has begun laying down its weapons after promising to disarm in a peace process designed to end the four-decade insurgency against the Turkish state.

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 ...

Selahattin Demirtaş was until 11 February 2018 the co-chair of the HDP: the HDP operates a co-leadership system to make sure women and men have an equal voice.

These were critical junctures in Turkey’s political trajectory, ... (HDP), which had opposed Erdoğan’s transition to a presidential system, was also targeted. Selahattin Demirtaş, ...

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 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 ...