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    Rival Insults Erdogan, Runs for President—From Jail

    Holding a political figure for making disparaging remarks, Selahattin Demirtaş says, is evidence of how Erdogan has replaced democracy with a repressive one-party state.
    by Orlando Crowcroft Jun 08, 2018 4 minutes
    The youthful and stirring Demirtaş has been called the Kurdish Obama.
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    Three years ago, Selahattin Demirtaş was celebrating a political revolution in Turkey.

    Alarmed by the increasingly autocratic rule of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Kurdish former human rights lawyer had formed a new political party—the People’s Democratic Party, or HDP—and led it to victory in a historic election. For the first time, the country’s long-suppressed Kurdish minority was poised to take seats in Parliament, depriving the divisive president’s party of a majority and curbing his plans to expand his executive powers. “As of this hour, the debate about the presidency, the debate about dictatorship, is over,” Demirtaş declared on election night in June 2015. “Turkey narrowly averted a disaster.”

    The victory was short-lived. Erdogan challenged

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