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Turkey arrests pro-Kurdish mayor two months after election
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2024-06-03 | 05:02
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Turkey arrests pro-Kurdish mayor two months after election
Police detained a pro-Kurdish party mayor in southeast Turkey on Monday over alleged militant links and he has been replaced by the state governor, the interior ministry said, two months after the mayor won power in local elections.
After previous municipal elections, Turkey detained pro-Kurdish mayors, removing virtually all from their posts to be replaced by state officials over charges of ties to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
Mehmet Siddik Akis, mayor of Hakkari province bordering Iran and Iraq, was accused of having a high-level role in the PKK militant group, the ministry said in a statement on X.
A security source said police teams carried out a search at the Hakkari municipal building and kept out members of Akis' pro-Kurdish DEM party, the third largest in Turkey's parliament.
Akis and his lawyer could not immediately be reached for comment but his party was set to hold a news conference regarding the situation. DEM has previously denied any association with the PKK.
"The government, which is defeated by the will of the people every time, has again resorted to the way it knows best: usurping (the people's) will and conducting a coup," DEM said in a statement about the mayor's arrest.
In the March 31 local elections, DEM reaffirmed its regional strength, winning 10 provinces in the mainly Kurdish southeast.
Turkish authorities accuse DEM and its pro-Kurdish predecessors of ties to the PKK, which is designated a terrorist group by Turkey, the United States and the European Union.
Over 40,000 people have been killed in the PKK's separatist insurgency against the Turkish state, launched in 1984.
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