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Former Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) leader Selahattin Demirtas
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JAILED former Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) leader Selahattin Demirtas must be freed from his Turkish prison, the European Parliament declared yesterday, amid warnings that Turkey is becoming “a dictatorship.”
A fiery session in Brussels debated a motion on the plight of Mr Demirtas and other political prisoners, condemning Turkey for holding him and others as “political hostages” and for ignoring a December ruling from the European Court of Human Rights demanding his immediate release.
The debate took place ahead of today’s visit to Brussels by Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu who will meet EU leaders in a bid to get Ankara’s stalled accession bid back on track.
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