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The Kurdish Issue in Turkey: An Interview with Selahattin Demirtas

The Kurdish Issue in Turkey: An Interview with Selahattin Demirtas

  At thirty-nine years old, Selahattin Demirtas is the Chairman of the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) in Turkish parliament. He has held this position since January 2010 and was first elected to parliament in 2007 as the MP for the Kurdish majority city of Diyarbakir, after which he joined the now-defunct Democratic Society Party […]

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