(5.10.2015) After the H.D.P. gained representation in Turkey’s Parliament, a first for any Kurdish party, in elections in June, a two-year cease-fire collapsed between the Turkish government and rebels of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or P.K.K. With new elections expected next month, Mr. Demirtas has accused the government of inciting violence against Kurds to win over nationalist voters and push his party out of Parliament.

Government supporters initially argued on social networks that the first image of the episode to appear online was fake, and even resorted to airbrushing the man’s body out of the photo.