Selahattin Demirtas was born on 10th of April, 1973 in Surici town of central Sur District in Diyarbakir. He is the second son of a worker dad and a housewife mother with seven children. His childhood years were spent under the government’s martial law regime following Turkey’s 1980 military coup where the majority of human rights were violated. During his youth in 1990s, the human rights were severely violated again in Diyarbakir which is the symbolic center of the geography in Turkey where mainly Kurdish people reside.