PROSECUTORS in Turkey could seek a sentence of more than 15,000 years for former Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) leader Selahattin Demirtas after new charges against him were accepted last week.

The Ankara 22nd High Criminal Court accepted a file submitted on December 28 against 108 largely Kurdish politicians in relation to the so-called Kobane case and charged Mr Demirtas with 37 killings.

The deaths came at the hands of Turkish security services during protests in October 2014, when Turkey’s army allowed Isis to besiege the Syrian border town of Kobani while refusing to allow aid and support to reach its people.