A Turkish appeals court has upheld the “terror propaganda” conviction of a former co-leader and presidential candidate of Turkey’s pro-Kurdish opposition party.
Turkey’s state-run Anadolu news agency said on Tuesday the appeals court in Istanbul had unanimously voted to finalise a September verdict against Selahattin Demirtas.
The former Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) co-chairperson was sentenced to four years and eight months in prison last September for a 2013 speech the court deemed was in support of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK)
Demirtas, along with several other former HDP members of parliament, has been in jail for more than two years on the charge of having links to the PKK, which has been fighting the Turkish army for more autonomy since the 1980s.
The Kurdish politician and others were arrested after their immunity as MPs was lifted in 2016. Source: aljazeera.com
Friday, April 24, 2026
