Man challenging Erdogan in prison elections

Dermatş from the Democratic People's Party, has been in prison for 20 months. But will the Kurdish vote be able to restore freedom?

Now when the pro-Kurdish HDP party has passed the 10 per cent threshold of votes needed for parliamentary representation, it is likely to be released from prison.

But days earlier he had said that this was not the purpose of his candidacy. According to him, the purpose was to free his people.

Demirtaş received 7.65 per cent of the vote, when 92 per cent of the ballots were counted.