HDP Co-Chair Selahattin Demirtaş’s short story titled Halep Ezmesi (Aleppo Mince) has been published on PEN International website with this following introduction:

‘This week in the PEN/Guernica Flash series, we feature a short story by Selahattin Demirtaş, translated by Nicholas Glastonbury. Demirtaş is co-chair of the People’s Democratic Party (HDP) and a member of Turkish Parliament. He has been imprisoned since early November, and on February 21,  2017,  was formally sentenced to five months in prison on charges of “insulting the Turkish nation” under article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code. In the current climate, as the Turkish Parliament recently voted to begin deliberations for a constitutional amendment to establish a single-leader presidency, Demirtaş’s silencing appears to have been all the more premeditated.’

The story also will be published on Guernica Magazine.

Link: https://pen.org/aleppo-mince/