Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday took aim at Europe’s top human rights court, which called on Turkey this week to immediately release from prison a prominent Kurdish politician accused of supporting terrorism.
The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights ruled Tuesday that Turkey’s four-year-long imprisonment of Selahattin Demirtas, the former co-leader of the opposition Peoples’ Democratic Party, had violated the politician’s basic rights and was “cover for an ulterior political purpose.”
