Selahattin Demirtas, leader of the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy (BDP) party, accused the government of deliberately massacring innocent civilians to intimidate his people.
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Sentences sought by prosecutors in an array of cases against the BDP's 22 parliamentarians, including Mr Demirtas, add up to a staggering 2, 350 years.
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Yet amid all the violence AK officials met Selahattin Demirtas, the BDP's leader, to discuss the new constitution Mr Erdogan has pledged to deliver.