The new Turkey
Hülya Alökmen Uyanık

06-Apr-2019

Turkish authorities on Friday launched an investigation into the new co-mayors of the southeastern province of Diyarbakır elected on Sunday’s local polls according to unofficial results, news site Gazete Karınca reported.

Turkey’s predominantly Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) declared victory in local polls on Sunday in Diyarbakır and received 62.93 percent of the votes in its stronghold.

Diyarbakır was one of the provinces the Turkish government replaced previously elected HDP mayors with appointed administrators over terror links to outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party.

Both the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu repeatedly said during the election campaign that the government might again replace mayors to be elected on March 31, if they were linked to the PKK.

Diyarbakır Chief Public Prosecutor’s office launched a terror investigation into co-mayors Adnan Selçuk Mızraklı and Hülya Alökmen Uyanık over joining an anthem and one minute's silence at a meeting in Diyarbakır organised in memory of those who lost their lives in democracy struggle, Gazete Karınca said.*

*Source: https://ahvalnews.com/peoples-democratic-
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