A Turkish court on Monday sentenced Selahattin Demirtas, the jailed former co-leader of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), to 3-1/2 years in jail for insulting the president, his ...

Basak Demirtas has been visiting her husband at the jail in Edirne, 1,600 km (994 miles) from the family home in Diyarbakir, every week, a journey which involves flights and a lengthy drive.

The European Court of Human Rights ruled on Tuesday that Turkey must immediately release prominent Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtas, saying the justification for his four years in prison was ...