Selahattin Demirtaş giving the Saladin Lecture 2016

LitHouse podcast

English - November 09, 2016 17:07 - 1 hour - 175 MB - ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
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In this episode you can hear Selahattin Demirtaş giving that Saladin Lecture 2016. The lecture was given on April 13th, as part of the International Saladin Days, and was held in Turkish. It was followed by a few questions that were put to mr. Demirtaş in English, and answered in Turkish.

Selahattin Demirtaş is the chairman of Turkey's pro Kurdish coalition party HDP, and considered by many to be the key to the Kurds' future in Turkey.

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