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's Interior Ministry has dismissed the mayor of a southeastern town over inciting people to armed uprising and terror propaganda, hours after an announcement that the curfew would be lifted.
Interior Minister dismissed Cizre Mayor Leyla Imret over an investigation launched by the Chief Prosecutor's Office in Cizre into Imret, charging her with inciting people to armed uprising and terror propaganda.
A curfew which was implemented late Sept. 4 in the Cizre district of southeastern Turkey's Sirnak province would be removed as of 7:00 a.m. on Sept. 12, Sirnak Governor's office said on Sept. 11 soon after three markets and one bakery were permitted to open with telephone and internet lines also opened to access.
The GSM and internet lines were reportedly opened for usage during the day on Sept. 11 but would be once again blocked at night, while three markets and one bakery, which serves at most five loaves of bread to each family, were allowed to open for citizens to meet their needs after eight days of being forcefully confined to their homes due to the curfew announced on Sept. 4, Dogan News Agency reported.
Ali Riza Alaboyun, the energy and natural resources minister of the interim government, told a group of journalists on Sept. 11 in Ankara that power distribution units in Cizre could have been damaged on a small scale "but the electricity flowing to Cizre and the transformers were actively working."