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Turkey jails mayors over Kurdish self-rule claims
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleISTANBUL – A Turkish court remands in custody three mayors from the Kurdish-dominated southeast on charges of seeking to destroy national unity by allegedly supporting calls for regional self-rule, reports say.
The investigation comes as Turkey carries out its biggest operation in years against Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants who have responded by tearing up a 2013 ceasefire and staging daily attacks against the security forces.
Those placed under arrest include the co-mayors of the central Sur district of the region’s biggest city Diyarbakir, Seyid Narin and Fatma Sik Barut, the official Anatolia news agency reports.
— AFP
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