Mehmet Sadik Akish, the elected mayor of Hakkari, Turkey, was arrested in Van. He is accused of joining the Kurdistan Workers' Party banned in Turkey, and alleged connections with terrorist groups operating in the south of Turkey. "Mehmet Sidık Akış, who was elected as the mayor of Hakkari in the southeast of the country in the March 2024 elections of local self-government bodies in Turkey, was removed from his position and arrested as part of the investigation of the case of relations with the Kurdistan Workers' Party," the Turkish Ministry of Internal Affairs said in a statement. His authority was temporarily taken over by the governor of Hakari province. The arrested mayor is an ethnic Kurd and represented the left party of the Greens in the election. The authorities have strictly banned the activities of the local organization of the pro-Kurdish party.
In Turkey, the elected mayor of the city of Hakar was arrested on charges of membership of the Kurdistan Workers' Party
03.06 20:03 |
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