{"id":43560,"date":"2020-05-15T20:30:01","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T20:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/?p=43560"},"modified":"2020-05-15T20:30:01","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T20:30:01","slug":"Turkish authorities detain Kurdish mayors on terrorism pretext  ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/43560\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish authorities detain Kurdish mayors on terrorism pretext"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"RTL\" style=\"text-align:left\"><strong>North-Press Agency<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"RTL\" style=\"text-align:left\"><strong>&nbsp; <\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"RTL\" style=\"text-align:left\">On Friday, Reuters and Anadolu (an official Turkish agency) quoted anonymous security sources in saying that the Turkish authorities arrested four Kurdish mayors on the pretext of links to terrorism.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"RTL\" style=\"text-align:left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"RTL\" style=\"text-align:left\"><a name=\"_gjdgxs\"><\/a>The source said that the authorities detained the mayors of Igdir, Sa&#39;arad, Baykan and Kurtalan, who are from the HDP (the Peoples&#39; Democratic Party, a pro-minority left-wing party in Turkey), which supports the rights of the Kurds in Turkey.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"RTL\" style=\"text-align:left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"RTL\" style=\"text-align:left\">Turkish courts have ruled to try thousands of HDP members, and some of its leaders, on the grounds of links to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which the party denies.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"RTL\" style=\"text-align:left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"RTL\" style=\"text-align:left\">The Turkish authorities have previously dismissed more than half of the mayors in the administrative centers that the HDP has won since the holding of local elections in March 2019, which are about 65 administrative centers, and replaced them with trustees from the local authorities.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"RTL\" style=\"text-align:left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"RTL\" style=\"text-align:left\">In November 2016, during the failed coup in Turkey, the previous co-presidents of the party Selahattin Demirta\u015f and Figen Y&uuml;ksekda\u011f were arrested by Turkish authorities on charges of &quot;propagating a terrorist organization&quot;, and Demirta\u015f faces penalties of up to 142 years.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"RTL\" style=\"text-align:left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North-Press Agency &nbsp; On Friday, Reuters and Anadolu (an official Turkish agency) quoted anonymous security sources in saying that the Turkish authorities arrested four Kurdish mayors on the pretext of links to terrorism.&nbsp; &nbsp; The source said that the authorities detained the mayors of Igdir, Sa&#39;arad, Baykan and Kurtalan, who are from the HDP (the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43561,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Turkish authorities detain Kurdish mayors on terrorism pretext  - North press agency<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"North-Press Agency &nbsp; 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