Jailed Turkish politician’s wife sentenced over faulty medical report: media By Reuters
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Basak Demirtas, spouse of Selahattin Demirtas, jailed former co-leader and presidential candidate of Turkey’s fundamental pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Celebration (HDP), arrives at a polling station throughout the presidential and parliamentary elections in t
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) – The spouse of outstanding jailed Turkish opposition determine Selahattin Demirtas has been sentenced to 2 1/2 years in jail over a fraudulent medical report, the Cumhuriyet newspaper mentioned.
Attorneys for Basak Demirtas, 44, mentioned in a press release she was sentenced by a court docket because of a defective date on a medical report issued by a health care provider in southeastern province of Diyarbakir in 2015, Cumhuriyet reported on Friday.
Selahattin Demirtas, the previous pro-Kurdish occasion chief and one in every of Turkey’s best-known politicians, has been in jail for almost 5 years on terrorism-related expenses that he denies.
Basak Demirtas’s attorneys couldn’t instantly be reached for remark.
The European Parliament’s Turkey rapporteur, Nacho Sanchez Amor, mentioned her sentencing appeared “political” for a clerical error.
Amor wrote https://twitter.com/NachoSAmor/standing/1459093305212514304?ref_src=twsrcpercent5Egooglepercent7Ctwcamppercent5Eserppercent7Ctwgrpercent5Etweet on Twitter (NYSE:) that “2.5 years of jail for a mere clerical error regarding a medical file is appalling and appears past widespread sense. It simply seems to be so political. It provides the measure of the worrying state of Turkish judiciary.”
Basak Demirtas is free pending enchantment of her conviction. Her attorneys mentioned there was an error on the data that might be corrected by inspecting the appointment e book of the native well being care centre, the newspaper mentioned.
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