I Am Running for President in Turkey. From My Prison Cell.
Turkey will vote in presidential and parliamentary elections on June 24. I am one of six candidates running for president. I am running from my prison cell.
I am writing from a maximum-security prison in Edirne, a city in northwestern Turkey, near the border with Bulgaria. I was arrested one year and eight months ago while I was a member of the Turkish parliament and the co-chairman of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, known as the H.D.P., for which six million people voted in the last election.
My jailers chose to imprison me here because Edirne is far from my home, family and friends in the southeastern Kurdish region of the country.… Seguir leyendo »