Turkey Kurdish leader 'against both coup and Erdogan'

Turkey Kurdish leader 'against both coup and Erdogan' Ankara (AFP) July 22, 2016 - Turkey's main pro-Kurdish party strongly opposes the failed coup against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan but will keep up its opposition to the "oppression" of the Turkish strongman, its leader says. Selahattin Demirtas, the co-chairman of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), told AFP in an interview there was no contradiction between strongly opposing last week's putsch as well as Erdogan's ... more

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