Selahattin Demirtas, 51, was sentenced last May to 42 years in prison for his alleged role in deadly 2014 protests that erupted as Islamic State group jihadists overran the Syrian town of Kobane.

Selahattin Demirtas is Turkey's pro-Kurdish opposition candidate. He's been held in prison for the past 20 months, campaigning for the June elections via social media and now, TV. Irish mountain ...

FILE - A cardboard cut-out of Selahattin Demirtas is pictured at an election kiosk in Istanbul, June 20, 2018. ISTANBUL (AP) — A delegation from one of Turkey's biggest pro-Kurdish political ...

Selahattin Demirtas, of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), came third in this year's presidential elections, contesting it from jail. The ECHR said his detention had the "ulterior ...