A Jailed Kurdish Kingmaker Could Decide Turkey’s Future

Jun 23, 2018, 01:39 PM

In the race for Turkey's presidency, a candidate is entitled to 20 minutes of television time - even, it turns out, from prison. In what state media are calling a "first in the history of democracy," Kurdish candidate Selahattin Demirtas, who was arrested during the crackdown that followed a failed military coup in 2016, gave a speech from his cell on June 17.