Turkey keeps state appointee in Kurdish-majority city after elected mayor cleared - Stockholm Center for Freedom
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Although the right-wing coalition at the summit of the Turkish government claims to want to reach a peace agreement with the Pkk, in fact it shows the opposite. The Ministry of the Interior has extended the mandate of the governor of Mardin, Tuncay Akkoyun, for another two months, as a trustee appointed by the State even though it was pronounced three months ago the acquittal of the elected mayor, Ahmet Türk, in the case that led to his suspensi…
Turkey keeps state appointee in Kurdish-majority city after elected mayor cleared - Stockholm Center for Freedom
Turkey has extended the mandate of a state-appointed trustee running the southeastern city of Mardin, keeping the municipality under central government control despite a court acquittal of the elected mayor, whose removal had been justified by terrorism-related charges, the Birgün daily reported. The interior ministry extended for two more months the mandate of Tuncay Akkoyun, the provincial governor appointed to run the municipality. Akkoyun re…
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