Hasan Doğan, the trustee appointed to Diyadin district of Ağrı province, has cancelled an invitation to tender issued by the municipality formerly run by the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) for the redesign of public spaces. This is the first official act of the AKP government's trustee, who has been sitting in the town hall for just one and a half weeks. Meanwhile, the legitimately elected co-mayor Betül Yaşar is in pre-trial detention because of vaguely formulated "terror accusations". The usual procedure in Turkey to abolish Kurdish local politics and to concentrate all power on the centralist regime.

The tender for the transformation of Diyadin had included road construction work, a large-scale tree planting and the reconstruction or conversion of the lighting systems as a traffic safety measure in the area of the municipal cemetery. A new wall was also to be built around the cemetery. The HDP's municipal projects were also smashed in other regions. Destroying the Kurdish cities also in terms of infrastructure is part of the AKP's annihilation policy. Some places already resemble a ruined city.