Iğdır is a very ancient city in which many civilizations lived. The Hurrian lived there some 4000 years before Christ. The area was part of the Urartu kingdom circa 800 BC and then was part of the Median and Persian Empires.

These peoples lived together throughout Iğdır's 10 thousand years history. Therefore, Iğdır has always been known as a place of peace and brotherhood.

The people of Iğdır have the strength of Mount Ararat and the nobility of the Aras River and its fertile plain. Kurds, Azeris, Terekemeliler, Turks, Circassians and other peoples live together in Iğdır's cosmopolitan structure.

After the Turkish state was established, Iğdır, the cradle of peace, lost this feature. The parties, which came with the Turkish state, reinforced racism and committed massacres. Many peoples, especially the Kurds, were massacred in Iğdır.

The DTP broke the darkness in 2009

Iğdır was run by racist parties like the MHP until the 2009 local elections. Before the local elections in 2009, many people, especially Kurds, were subjected to racism, oppression and migration. In the 2009 local elections, Iğdır Municipality passed from the MHP to the Democratic Society Party (DTP).

This victory meant that Iğdır could take a breath; peace and brotherhood were restored after many years. Iğdır, where no services for the community had been performed for 100 years, came out of the darkness with the DTP. All people were served equally in Iğdır, the municipality door was opened to the people.

After having tasted peace with the DTP, the people of Iğdır chose the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP), the party of rights, democracy, peace and service in the 2014 local elections.

The BDP, which comes from the tradition of DTP, continued to serve people in the same way. 

Peace, democracy, justice and egalitarian service, meant that the people of Iğdır once again, in the 31 March 2019 elections gave their vote to the HDP, against the racist bloc of the AKP, MHP and IYI Party.

Yaşar Akkus and Eylem Celik, HDP co-mayor candidates in Iğdır were met with great enthusiasm wherever they went. The HDP won the Municipality of Iğdır. It was a clear victory. And the co-mayors began working immediately after the elections, to serve the people as their predecessors had done.

The people of Iğdır could transfer their problems to co-mayors Yaşar Akkuş and Eylem Çelik without encountering any obstacles. The problems of the people of Iğdır were identified and solutions found.

HDP-run Iğdır Municipality was appointed a trustee by the AKP-MHP government on 15 May and the will of the people was seized. After the seizure of Iğdır Municipality, co-mayor Yaşar Akkuş was arrested.

Clearly the appointment of a trustee is an act of revenge. The fascist and racist alliance of the AKP-MHP and Iyi Party could not get the municipality through democratic and free vote and decided to take it illegally.