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Jailed HDP co-chair Demirtaş calls on arrested educators to end hunger strike

The jailed co-chair of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), Selahattin Demirtaş, has called on two arrested educators to end their hunger strike.

Demirtaş penned a letter to Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça, who have been on a hunger strike for over 110 days, from the prison where he is being held in the northwestern province of Edirne.