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Jailed Kurdish leader keeps in touch with supporters through arts, literature

Selahattin Demirtas, the jailed leader of Turkey’s Kurdish political movement, tells Al-Monitor from prison how arts and literature have become his way of resisting oppression and despair.

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A painting by Selahattin Demirtas, who is the head of Turkey’s main Kurdish political movement and who has been behind bars on terror-related charges for almost a year. Posted June 1, 2017. — Twitter/ZANA_VOANEWS

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