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September 10, 2015

Turkey Targets Left-Wing Leader on Charges of Insulting President 
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In Turkey, prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation against
Selahattin Demirtas, one of the leaders of the HDP, Turkey's main
pro-Kurdish political party. The charges against Demirtas include
humiliating the Turkish people and insulting the president. This comes
on the heels of a wave of nationalist violence that swept the country
earlier this week as protesters attacked HDP headquarters in at least a
half-dozen cities. Meanwhile, Turkey has deported a Dutch journalist
after she was arrested while reporting on a protest at which activists
denounced the increasing fighting between Turkish security forces and
the Kurdistan Workers' Party, known as the PKK.

 

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