Kurdish boy who spoke out for Kurdish rights in 1996 elected DEM Party official

Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) on Sunday elected Yunus Muratakan as co-chair of its Diyarbakir (Amed) provincial branch, drawing widespread attention on social media after a 1996 video resurfaced showing him as a nine-year-old speaking out against the village guard system.