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| The Grand Turk |
| Turkey’s pro-Kurdish HDP party picks new co-leader |
| 2017-05-21 |
| [Iran Press TV] The Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), the main pro-Kurdish party in ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , has picked Serpil Kemalbay to replace a placed in durance vile Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! co-leader amid a massive government crackdown. The HDP named Kemalbay in a tightly-guarded congress meeting on Saturday to replace Figen Yuksekdag, who was stripped of her parliamentary status three months ago after being placed in durance vile Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! on terrorism charges in November 2016. The organizers of the HDP congress displayed images of ten HDP deputies on the stage while speakers hailed resistance by Yuksekdag and Selahattin Demirtas, the other leader of the party who is also in prison on similar charges. Demirtas, who still remains a member of parliament, issued a statement from his cell in northwestern Turkey, calling on the HDP to prepare "a plan to fight for democracy and peace" in the face of a "political purge." |
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