Khaleej Times

DEMIRTAS IS CHALLENGIN­G ERDOGAN IN POLL

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> Leading Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtas is not facing a usual set of circumstan­ces as he campaigns for June 24 elections from jail.

> Demirtas on Wednesday issued his first audio message of the campaign delivered in a telephone call received by his wife Basak.

> The charismati­c ex-leader of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) has been jailed since November 2016.

> Demirtas describes himself as a “political hostage”.

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