STORY: :: Clashes erupted in eastern Turkey after pro-Kurdish mayors were replaced with state officials
:: Tunceli, Turkey
:: November 23, 2024
According to the interior ministry, the mayors were punished for convictions on terrorism-related offences, and state officials were temporarily appointed in their places instead.
The local governor replaced mayor Cevdet Konak in Tunceli, while a local administrator was appointed in the place of Ovacik mayor Mustafa Sarigul.
Konak is a member of the pro-Kurdish DEM Party, which has 57 seats in the national parliament, and Sarigul is a member of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP). Dozens of pro-Kurdish mayors from its predecessor parties have been removed from their posts on similar charges in the past.
