DEMIRTAS IS CHALLENGING ERDOGAN IN POLL
> 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”.