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Ankara [Turkey], May 17 (ANI): A Turkish Court has sentenced over 20 Kurdish politicians, including former presidential candidate Selahattin Demirtas, on bogus charges of crimes against the state and for their role in the 2014 deadly riots that erupted as Islamic State group overran the Syrian town of Kobane, reported Human Rights Watch. The core accusation centres on four social media postings on October 6, 2014, from the Twitter account of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) alongside the politicians’ political speeches. The indictment takes these tweets as grounds to hold the accused politi…

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