The new Turkey
Gülşen Özer.
Reserve member of the HDP Party Assembly

15 November 2019:

Elected Mayors of 20 Municipalities Replaced with State-Appointed Trustees So Far
Since the Metropolitan Mayors of Van, Diyarbakır and Mardin were removed from office on August 19, 2019 on the ground that there were ongoing investigations against them, trustees have been appointed to 20 metropolitan, provincial and district municipalities in eastern Turkey.

Lastly, on November 13, trustees were appointed to the District Municipalities of Yenişehir and Hazro in Turkey's southeastern province of Diyarbakır and the Municipality of Akpazar town in Mazgirt, Dersim.

CLICK - Four HDP Mayors Replaced with Trustees

CLICK - Trustees Appointed to 15 HDP Municipalities Since Local Elections on March 31

While mayors have been removed from office, district governors or governors have been appointed as acting mayors in their place.

In dismissing Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) mayors, the Ministry of Interior or governorships have been referring to "the ongoing investigations against them on terror-related charges." 

Trustees have been appointed to the following municipalities so far:

• Diyarbakır Metropolitan Mayor Adnan Selçuk Mızraklı
• Mardin Metropolitan Mayor Ahmet Türk
• Van Metropolitan Mayor Bedia Özgökçe Ertan
• Hakkari Mayor Cihan Karaman
• Yüksekova Mayor Remziye Yaşar
• Nusaybin Mayor Semire Nergiz
• Kulp Mayor Mehmet Fatih Taş
• Kayapınar Mayor Keziban Yılmaz
• Bismil Mayor Gülcan Özer
• Kocaköy Mayor Rojda Nazlıer
• Erciş Mayor Yıldız Çetin
• Karayazı Mayor Melike Göksu
• Cizre Mayor Mehmet Zırığ
• Saray Mayor Caziye Duman
• Kızıltepe Mayor Nilüfer Elik Yılmaz
• Yenişehir Mayor Belgin Diken
• Hazro Mayor Ahmet Çevik
• İdil Mayor Songül Erden
• Akpazar Town Mayor Orhan Çelebi
• İpekyolu Mayor Azim Yacan

13 August 2018:

Former HDP MP Berk, Party Assembly Member Özer Detained

The former HDP MP Edip Berk and reserve member of the HDP Party Assembly Gülşen Özer have been taken into custody.

The former Diyarbakır MP of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Edip Berk and a reserve member of the HDP Party Assembly Gülşen Özer have been taken into custody in a police raid conducted to their houses.

It has been stated that Berk and Özer, who have been taken to Diyarbakır Security Directorate, have been detained as part of an investigation, which has been launched into the statements that they made during the Newroz celebrations in Turkey's eastern province of Bingöl in 2018.

Berk was elected as HDP Diyarbakır MP on June 7, 2015.