File Photo: Co-chairs of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), Selahattin Demirtas and Figen Yuksekdag, attend a meeting to announce their party's manifesto for the upcoming general election, in Istanbul April 21, 2015. REUTERS/Murad Sezer/File Photo
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey's main pro-Kurdish opposition party said on Monday it had appealed to the European Court of Human Rights over what it said was the unlawful imprisonment of its two leaders on terrorism-related charges.
The arrest last November of the leaders of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) drew international condemnation over what rights groups say is a widening crackdown on dissent under President Tayyip Erdogan.
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