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Terror Charges Dropped Against Pro-Kurdish Leader

Ezel Sahinkaya

   Some information for this report came from The Associated Press.

   A court in Turkey has dropped terror charges against a prominent
   pro-Kurdish politician who has been jailed for more than two years, but
   authorities are still pursuing a separate case against him, which could
   keep him imprisoned.

   Selahattin Demirtas, a former co-chair of the pro-Kurdish Peoples'
   Democratic Party (HDP), was accused of leading a terrorist
   organization, carrying out terrorist propaganda, and other
   terror-related crimes for which he was faced with up to 142 years in
   prison.

   According to Anadolu Agency, a state-run news agency, Demirtas was
   accused of being a leader of Turkey's Kurdistan Workers' Party, known
   as PKK, which is designated by Turkey, the U.S. and the EU as a
   terrorist organization.

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