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Selahattin Demirtaş

Member of the Turkish Grand National Assembly. Co-chairman of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP).

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Free Speech Isn’t the Only Casualty of Erdogan’s Repression

by Selahattin Demirtaş

Istanbul (Turkey) | 14 April 2016

The Turkish government represses its Kurd minority.
When Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, recently paid a visit to Washington, he gave Americans a taste of the kinds of policies he employs at home. His guards reportedly roughed up reporters outside a think tank while an (…)