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Click to expand Image Selahattin Demirta, former co-chair of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), was among MPs jailed on November 4, 2016. His vacant seat in the general assembly of Turkey's parliament is shown here marked with his photo. 2016 HDP Rule 9.2 Submission (Istanbul) - The Turkish government should abide by international law and implement the binding judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) by immediately releasing politicians Selahattin Demirta and Figen Yksekda, who formerly co-chaired the opposition Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), four rights organizations said today. The four nongovernmental organizations-Human Rights Watch, the Turkey Human Rights Litigation Support Project, the International Commission of Jurists, and the International Federation for Human Rights-made their call on the seventh anniversary of the politicians' wrongful imprisonment. "The seventh anniversary of the unlawful incarceration of Selahattin Demirta and Fi ....

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