The magazine announced that Demirtas was joining on the first page of its current issue.
Over the three years since Turkish authorities arrested him for a range of terror-related charges, Demirtas has written two short story collections and shared drawings he has made.
The Turkish government jailed Demirtas during a period of emergency rule in November 2016, accusing him of links to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which has waged an armed struggle for Kurdish self-rule in Turkey since 1984.
The government has refused to comply with a ruling from the European Court of Human Rights demanding Demirtas’s release.
The Kurdish politician was handed a four-year-and-eight-month sentence for terrorism propaganda last year, but faces dozens of other charges carrying combined sentences that could exceed 140 years.
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<p style="text-align:left">Selahattin Demirtas, the jailed former leader of Turkey&rsquo;s pro-Kurdish opposition Peoples&rsquo; Democratic Party (HDP), has turned his hand to drawing for the satirical cartoon magazine Leman, Diken reported on Wednesday.
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