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Cengiz Çandar, a senior figure in the pro-Kurdish DEM Party who attended a regional forum in Iraq’s Kurdistan region alongside Syrian Kurdish leaders, elaborated on the peace process in Turkey and efforts to integrate the Kurdish-led autonomous administration with the Damascus government.

The court has issued a warrant against journalist Cengiz Çandar, who is standing trial over his social media posts about Ayşe Deniz Karacagil, known as “the girl with the red scarf” during the Gezi resistance of 2013.