ISTANBUL (Hurriyet Daily News)—Peoples’ Democratic Party’s (HDP) Co-Chair Selahattin Demirtaş suffered a heart spasm in jail on December 10, HDP lawmaker Ayhan Bilgen said on Monday at the party’s Central Executive Board meeting.
“We are concerned about our co-chair’s medical condition. We will apply to the Turkish Chamber of Doctors and request that Demirtaş receives treatment in hospital by impartial doctors,” Bilgen said.
Demirtaş has previously suffered a heart spasm but has reportedly been denied medical treatment despite having a doctor’s report on his condition.
Earlier, the HDP co-chair sent a message from prison stating that he was “being held hostage” by being imprisoned but vowing that “it will not last long.”
“The mutual need and bonds between us and the people for freedom and peace are so strong that they cannot be restricted to four walls,” he said in a letter published on December 7.
Ten lawmakers from Turkey’s Kurdish-issue focused Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), as well its co-chairs, Demirtaş and Figen Yüksekdağ, were arrested on Nov. 4 in a probe that was launched against 14 of the party’s deputies over alleged links to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
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Turkish Republic government is and has always been (ever since its founding in 1923) a terrorist establishment.
It is very heartwarming to know that for the past 90 years or so the freedom loving Western World, led by the US, consider the Turkish Republic Government along with its Islamist agenda a ‘friend and ally’.
Wake up and smell the roses our corrupt self serving politicians and policy makers! The target of the Islamist governments like the Turkish government or Pakistan or Saudi Arabia is the conquest of the West. Something the Turks and the Arabs or the Iranians could not do for centuries.
The Middle East has been wiped off of Christians and other non-Muslims. The West is next.
Criminal Turkey will not stop until liquidates all Kurdish leaders.