The Kurdish spring did not happen
I N THE 1980s, when Basak Demirtas was just five, the police came for her father. Four years ago, her children watched their father being arrested in their turn. “I didn’t think my daughters would have to experience the same thing,” she says. But the lot of the Kurds is slow to change. Listen to this story Enjoy more audio and podcasts oniOSorAndroid. Selahattin Demirtas, her arrested husband, was at the time of his imprisonment the leader of the Peoples’ Democratic Party ( HDP), the strongest democratic voice of Turkey’s Kurds. He remains behind bars on trumped-up charges, along wi...
Source: economist.com