Trustee appointed to DEM Party's Siirt Municipality

Governor Kemal Kızılkaya, who was appointed as trustee to Siirt Municipality, took back the 2 buses allocated to Kurtalan Municipality by the DEM Party administration. Reacting to the decision, Mayor Ali Riza Bingol said: “It is an interference with the public's right to transport.”

Authoritarianism in Turkey Escalates as Another Municipality Receives Trustee Appointment

Authoritarianism in Turkey is tightening with each passing day. Alongside increasing arrests and detentions of politicians and journalists, trustees are being appointed to municipalities. As the Imralı talks continue, another municipality governed by the Democratic Party (DEM) has been taken over by a trustee. Alağaş, who faced charges of “membership in a terrorist organization” during her journalism career, was convicted by the Diyarbakır 5th H…

Trustee appointed to DEM Party's Siirt Municipality

Sofia Alağaş, the co-mayor of Siirt Municipality, was sentenced to 6 years and 3 months in prison on Tuesday by the Diyarbakır 5th High Criminal Court. Following the sentence, the Ministry of the Interior seized the municipality and appointed a trustee. Turkish police, who surrounded the municipal building, informed the co-mayors that a trustee had been appointed. While the Turkish flag was hung on the municipal building, citizens continued thei…