2 hours ago · Turkey
Even Erdoğan backs the release of Turkey’s brightest opposition leader. So why is he still in jail? | Kaya Genç
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SignalsMonitor is following this as a general story. The Guardian UK is the outlet attached so far. The reports are tied to Turkey. The first report grouped here was at 12 Nov 2026, 05:00 UTC. The headline in use is “Even Erdoğan backs the release of Turkey’s brightest opposition leader. So why is he still in jail? | Kaya Genç”. This note is SignalsMonitor's own briefing, not the publisher's article.
What we know
Selahattin Demirtaş lit up the Turkish left in 2014, but was imprisoned for ‘terrorist propaganda’. His freedom would mark a new political era A decade and a half ago, a promising figure emerged on Turkey’s political scene: Selahattin Demirtaş.
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