Mayors Ahmet Turk and Emin Irmak Among Those Arrested MARDIN,Turkey (A.
W.)—The Mayor of Metropolitan Mardin and member of the Democratic Regions Party (DBP) Ahmet Turk, was detained on Nov. 21 along with Artuklu district Mayor Emin Irmak, and in what Turkish authorities called a “terrorism investigation.” A scene from one of the arrests. (Photo: IHA) Turk was suspended from duty for days earlier,on Nov. 17, on trumped up charges in an ongoing terrorism probe to find links between the DBP and the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). Authorities raided and conducted searches at Turk’s residence in Mardin at around 10:15 a.m. before he was subsequently taken to the police headquarters to testify, and reported Turkey’s Hurriyet newspaper. Irmak,the Mayor of Mardin’s central Artuklu district, of Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), and was detained at his office as a part of the operation. Ahmet Turk (Photo: Mahmut Bozarslan) According to Hurriyet,police also detained another seven local administrators, including Artuklu deputy mayors Ismet Birtek and Mehmet Yildirim, and Mardin Metropolitan Municipality Secretary General Baran Ilhan,Artuklu municipality laywer Ziya Bagi, council member Mehmet Ali Amak, and two municipality personnel Seyhmus Aman and Sultan Bingol on the same day. Turk,74, is the former chairman [...]
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