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Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) spokesperson Faik Öztrak has criticized Health Minister Fahrettin Koca for what he said was "wrongly" painting an optimist outlook on the COVID-19 outbreak, eventually causing a rise in the daily confirmed cases in the country, as it began reopening much of the economy.

Selahattin Demirtaş, the presidential candidate of the Kurdish issue-focused Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), has filed an appeal with the Constitutional Court against his continued arrest, Doğan News Agency reported on May 29.

Hürriyet photojournalist Selahattin Sönmez captures super blue blood moon on Syrian border

Selahattin Demirtaş, the imprisoned co-leader of the Kurdish issue-focused People’s Democratic Party (HDP), will not stand as a nominee for the party’s leadership for the upcoming congress to be held in February.

A court in the Turkish capital Ankara on Dec. 7 started hearing the case of jailed Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş, who was absent from the first hearing.

Jailed Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş has said his own party has faults in the issue of the problems seasonal workers face, as he commented on the deaths of seven workers in the northwestern province of Sakarya. 

Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş, who is currently under arrest, was sentenced on Feb. 21 to five months in prison on charges of "insulting the state and its institutions," while the party's Diyarbakır Deputy İdris Baluken was arrested for a second time in Ankara.

Selahattin Demirtaş, the arrested co-chair of the Kurdish issue-focused Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), has requested his release from jail in a petition written to the Eighth Heavy Penal Court in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır. 

German Foreign Minister and Social Democratic Party (SPD) Chairman Sigmar Gabriel has invited Selahattin Demirtaş, a co-chair of the Turkish opposition Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) who is currently in jail pending trial in Turkey, to the Berlin convention of the Progressive Alliance - a Socialist International network - in a symbolic gesture, German broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW) reported F

The co-chairmen of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) are threatened by life sentences if the court confirms the verdicts demanded by the Prosecutor's Office, reported BGNES.

The leaders of the pro-Kurdish opposition party are being held in two separate prisons and investigated on terrorism charges by magistrates in Diyarbakır.