Turkey sentences Kurdish political leader to jail on terror charges
Ayla Jean Yackley in Istanbul yesterday
A Turkish court has sentenced Selahattin Demirtas, a popular Kurdish politician who challenged Recept Tayyip Erdogan in the presidential election, to almost five years in prison on terrorism charges, in a case the European Union has said may flout democratic values.
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