Turkey Kurd leader risks up to 142 years in jail: media

Tuesday, 17 January, 2017 , 13:42

Istanbul, Jan 17, 2017 (AFP) — Turkish prosecutors are demanding up to 142 years in prison for pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) co-leader Selahattin Demirtas on charges of links to Kurdish militants, state media said on Tuesday.

The charismatic Demirtas was detained in November along with another nine HDP lawmakers and his female co-leader Figen Yuksekdag. Prosecutors in the Kurdish-majority southeastern city of Diyarbakir want Yuksekdag to serve up to 83 years in jail, the state-run Anadolu news agency added.