Mardin court

HDP co-chair Demirtaş gets first acquittal in 'terror propaganda' case

Jailed Kurdish issue-focused Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş was acquitted on Jan. 19 of charges of "carrying out terror propaganda" in a speech delivered in the southeastern province of Mardin last year amid a curfew in another southeastern town.