Turkey unseats Kurdish mayors in crackdown

Turkey unseats Kurdish mayors in crackdown after peace proposal
Turkey dismissed the pro-Kurdish mayors of three southeastern cities on Monday for alleged ties to Kurdish militants, just two weeks after President Tayyip Erdogan's main ally made a proposal for ending the militants' 40-year insurgency in the southeast.
Turkey ousts 3 elected pro-Kurdish mayors from office and replaces them with state officials
Turkey has removed three elected pro-Kurdish mayors from office over terrorism-related charges and replaced them with state-appointed officials
Turkey Replaces Pro-Kurdish Mayors With State Officials in Southeast
Local governors replaced the mayors in the provincial centres of Mardin and Batman, while the mayor of Halfeti in Sanliurfa province was also unseated, it added. All belonged to the pro-Kurdish DEM Party,
Turkey Sacks 3 Mayors In Kurdish Majority Southeast: Interior Ministry
Turkey on Monday sacked three mayors facing terrorism charges in the Kurdish-majority southeast and replaced them with trustees, the interior ministry said.
Hundreds in Turkey protest the arrest and ouster of opposition mayor
Hundreds of people have gathered in Istanbul to protest against the arrest and removal from office of a mayor from Turkey’s main opposition party for alleged links to a banned Kurdish militant group
Turkey Removes Pro-Kurdish Mayors for Alleged PKK Ties
On Monday, Turkey dismissed pro-Kurdish mayors from three southeastern cities, alleging connections to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), just weeks after a key ally of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan proposed a plan to end the group’s four-decade conflict.
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