Hasan Basri Fırat, a former Kurdish mayor who was removed from office in 2016 and later left Turkey amid a government crackdown on Kurdish politicians, has died at the age of 72, the İlke TV news website reported. He died at a hospital in the western German city of Wuppertal after undergoing heart surgery five days earlier and spending several days in intensive care. Fırat was elected co-mayor of the Hınıs district in Erzurum in the March 2014 l…
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