Handan Bağcı, co-mayor of Van’s DBP-held Özalp district municipality which was usurped by the government and in whose place a trustee was appointed, has been taken into custody during a raid on her house in Van city Wednesday morning.

Reports suggest that her sister Gülistan Bağcı was also detained alongside her. Bağcı has been taken to Van provincial security department.

The co-mayor had been jailed in 2015 and released in April last year after one and a half years in jail.