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| The Grand Turk |
| Turkey jails five mayors in Kurdish southeast over 'self-rule' claims |
| 2015-08-24 |
| [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Turkish courts on Sunday remanded in jug five mayors from the Kurdish-dominated southeast on charges of seeking to destroy national unity by allegedly supporting calls for regional self-rule, reports said. The investigation comes as ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... carries out its biggest operation in years against Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) faceless myrmidons who have responded by tearing up a 2013 ceasefire and staging daily attacks against the security forces. A court in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir placed under arrest the co-mayors of the city's central Sur district, Seyid Narin and Fatma Sik Barut, the official Anatolia news agency reported. Also remanded in jug by the Diyarbakir court was Yuksel Bodakci, mayor of the town of Silvan in the Diyarbakir region, as well as two other municipal officials from Sur. Meanwhile, ...back at the pound, the little lost dog backed into the corner and showed its teeth. And what big teeth they were!... a court in the extreme southeastern city of Hakkari close to the borders with Iraq and Iran placed under arrest the two co-mayors of Hakkari city, Dilek Hatipoglu and Nurullah Ciftci. It is common in Kurdish regions of Turkey for posts to be shared between a man and a woman to promote gender equality. Anatolia said they had been all been charged with seeking "to break up the unity of the state and integrity of the country". It is not clear when the trials will start. All five are members of the Democratic Regions Party (DBP), which has close ties to Turkey's main pro-Kurdish political force the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP). The local head of the HDP in Hakkari, Ismail Sihat Kaya, has also been tossed in the slammer Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! , reports said. Turkish media reports said they had been initially detained last week as part of an investigation into moves by some Kurdish-dominated regions in Turkey to declare "self rule" since the latest crisis took hold. |
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