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Turkey to name administrators to run municipality after detaining Kurdish mayors : Officials
[AlAhram] Turkish authorities will appoint administrators to run the municipality in Diyarbakir, the mainly Kurdish southeast's largest city, after detaining its joint mayors last week, officials said on Tuesday.The state will name the administrators in the coming days, the officials told news hounds on condition their names were not used. A prosecutor accuses Gultan Kisanak, Diyarbakir's first female mayor and a well-known former parliamentarian, and her co-mayor Firat Anli of links with terrorism for public statements they made about greater autonomy for Kurds, who make up about 20 percent of ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's population of 79 million people. Posted by: trailing wife 2016-11-02 |
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