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    Turkey appoints trustee in Diyarbakir after detaining Kurdish mayors

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    Post by Rocky Wed 02 Nov 2016, 6:04 am

    Turkey appoints trustee in Diyarbakir after detaining Kurdish mayors
    Posted on November 2, 2016 by Editorial Staff in Politics
    Turkey appoints trustee in Diyarbakir after detaining Kurdish mayors Kurds-protest-against-the-arrest-of-two-mayors-of-Diyarbakir-Turkey-Oct-27-2016-Reuters
    Kurds protest against the arrest of two mayors of Diyarbakir, Turkish Kurdistan. Photo: Reuters
    DIYARBAKIR-AMED, Turkey’s Kurdish region,— Turkey appointed an unelected state trustee on Tuesday as the mayor of the biggest Kurdish city in Turkish Kurdistan in the southeast, the governor’s office said, after arresting Diyarbakir’s co-mayors last month.
    Gultan Kisanak and Firat Anli, jointly elected in 2014, were accused by a local court Sunday of “belonging to an armed terrorist organisation” and providing “logistical support to an armed terrorist organisation” and for public statements they made about greater autonomy for Kurds, who make up around 22.5 million of the country’s 79-million population.
    The Diyarbakir mayors’ replacement was named as Cumali Atilla, who previously served as a district governor in the capital Ankara. District governors are the state’s local representative in an area and they are appointed by the government.

    The move is likely to cause further tension after Kisanak and Anli’s detentions sparked an outbreak of violence as well as concern from European leaders over Ankara’s “worrying” crackdown on Kurdish party politicians.
    Protesters held a demonstration to demand the Diyarbakir mayors’ release last week but were pushed back by police using tear gas while access to the internet in Diyarbakir was out of action for several hours on Wednesday.
    When 24 mayors were suspended and replaced with officials close to the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) in September in the southeast, there were also protests in several cities. The mayors were suspected of links to Kurdish separatists.
    Earlier on Tuesday, 30 members of the left-wing opposition Kurdish Democratic Regions’ Party were detained in an operation in Mardin, southeast Turkey, over suspected Kurdish militant links, Dogan news agency reported.
     
    In September, 24 mayors in the southeast suspected of links to the PKK were suspended and replaced with officials close to the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) co-founded by Erdogan, a move that triggered protests in several cities in the region.
    In the same month, the government suspended 11,500 Kurdish teachers suspected of links to the PKK.
    The PKK took up arms in 1984 against the Turkish state, which still denies the constitutional existence of Kurds, to push for greater autonomy for the Kurdish minority. A large Kurdish community in Turkey and worldwide openly sympathise with PKK rebels.
    In September Turkish authorities have stopped broadcasts of 10 mostly Kurdish language television channels under state of emergency rules imposed in the wake of the July 15 coup bid.
    In October, Turkish police raided the Istanbul headquarters of prominent pro-Kurdish television channel IMC TV, cutting all its transmissions while it was live on air.
    Eutelsat has suspended the broadcast of Belgium based pro-Kurdish MED Nuçe TV.
    Since July 2015, Turkey initiated a controversial military campaign against the PKK in the country’s southeastern Kurdish region after Ankara ended a two-year ceasefire agreement. Since the beginning of the campaign, Ankara has imposed several round-the-clock curfews, preventing civilians from fleeing regions where the military operations are being conducted.
    Observers say the crackdown has taken a heavy toll on the Kurdish civilian population and accuse Turkey of using collective punishment against the minority.
    Activists have accused the security forces of causing huge destruction to urban centres and killing Kurdish civilians. But the government says the operations are essential for public safety, blaming the PKK for the damage.

    http://ekurd.net/turkey-kurdish-mayors-2016-11-02
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