BASAK DEMIRTAS, who is married to jailed former Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) co-chairman Selahattin Demirtas, has been sentenced to more than two years in a Turkish prison on bogus charges.
Ms Demirtas and her doctor each received two years and six months from a court in the south-eastern city of Diyarbakir on Thursday for “receiving a medical report contrary to facts.”
This relates to serious health problems that she suffered following a miscarriage in 2015.
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VIJAY PRASHAD details how US support for Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa allowed him to break the resistance of the autonomous Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)
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