ANKARA, Turkey — An appeals court upheld the conviction of Kurdish political leader Selahattin Demirtas today, endorsing his imprisonment for terrorist propaganda, causing his party to accuse the judiciary of kowtowing to government.
The decision came two weeks after the European Court of Human Rights had called for Demirtas’ release, saying his pretrial detention had been inexcusably long and driven by the aim of keeping him out of the political arena.
