Kurds and Turks are at the edge of a cliff | openDemocracy
Ayla
Akat, lawyer, former Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) MP for Batman, KJA
Spokesperson and prominent Kurdish women’s rights activists based in
Diyarbakir (Amed) was arrested a few days ago alongside other Kurdish
women’s rights activists.
They were protesting against the
illegal arrest of Gültan Kışanak, co-mayor of Diyarbakir, who has been
detained together with the city’s male co-mayor, Fırat Anlı. In
addition, 27 elected Kurdish co-mayors are in prison in Turkey, while 43
of them were dismissed. On 11 September 2016, the central government
appointed deputy governors as trustees to replace the dismissed Kurdish
mayors who were elected by more than 70% of the public vote.
