"[5] Başak Demirtaş travels regularly from Diyarbakır to Edirne in Turkey's North West to visit her husband.

[6] She told the BBC that she tried to be her husband's voice outside the prison during the 2018 Turkish Presidential election, in which he competed as the candidate for the HDP.

[10][11] She took part in the annual congress of the Progressive Alliance in 2019 in Stockholm, where she received an Award for Political Courage on behalf of her husband Selahattin Demirtaş.

[12] In June 2020, she was the target of a sexual threat from a Twitter account, which lead to a wave of solidarity from human rights activists and female politicians.

[15] In November 2021, Demirtaş and her doctor were sentenced to two and half years in jail each, for an inaccurate health certificate.