nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20201224-172619-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 201224s2020||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20201224-172619-0 doi eng 342 23 Çalı, Başak Author aut The Whole Is More than the Sum of its Parts The Demirtaş v Turkey (No 2) Grand Chamber Judgment of the ECtHR Çalı, Başak Verfassungsblog 2020-12-24 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier The long-awaited Demirtaş v. Turkey (No 2) Grand Chamber judgment has finally been delivered, twenty two months after referral and sixteen months since the 18 September 2019 hearing.  The judgment, arguably the most important from the Grand Chamber in 2020, is highly significant for both political and jurisprudential reasons. Politically, the case concerns the ongoing deprivation of liberty of Selahattin Demirtaş – the former leader of the left-wing, pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), the second-largest opposition party in Turkey. funded by the government CC BY-SA 4.0 Art. 3 ECHR Art. 5 EMRK ECtHR European Convention of Human Rights Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/the-whole-is-more-than-the-sum-of-its-parts/ raw object