Co-mayor of Tuşba taken into custody
Although the people of Van preferred the HDP in the March 2019 local elections, the AKP regime has suspended the HDP municipalities in all ten districts and had them replaced by trustees.
Co-mayor of Van’s Tuşba district municipality, Ayşe Minaz, has been taken into custody following a raid on her apartment Friday morning. She has been taken to the provincial security directorate.
Minaz was elected co-mayor to Tuşba Municipality for the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) in the local elections of March 31. Minaz and the other elected co-mayor, Yılmaz Berki, were denied mandate by the Supreme Election Board (YSK) and AKP candidate Salih Akman was granted the post.
In the March 31 elections, the HDP won 52 percent of the vote in Tuşba district.
In spite of all attempts of electoral fraud and blackmail, the AKP was defeated in every local election in the Van province and also on 31 March. The municipalities won by the Party of Democratic Regions (DBP) in 2014 had already been replaced by state-appointed trustees. The HDP co-mayors elected in March had the same fate. In all ten districts governed by the HDP as well as in the city itself, trustees have been appointed starting from August 2019.
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