Amed's Kulp district governor Fatih Gülgeroğlu has been appointed to the DBP-held municipality with the order of the Interior Minister.

Police forces laid a siege around the municipality building after Co-mayor Metin Dinar was submitted a notice that he had been dismissed. Kulp Co-mayor Sadiye Sürer had been jailed on January 5.

In the meantime, the DBP-held municipality in Van's Başkale district has also been seized by a trustee.

After Başkale Co-mayor İhsan Güler was notified that he had been dismissed, police encircled the municipality building yesterday evening, announcing that the administration of the municipality has been taken over by a trustee. Police couldn't enter the municipality as the building was closed at the weekend, and started to wait here with armored vehicles.

During the same hours, police forces raided the houses of Başkale Co-mayors Ayla Aynur Tarhan and İhsan Güler. The Co-mayors couldn't be taken into custody as they were not home.

The appointment of the district governor Abdulselam Öztürk as a trustee to the municipality was therewith notified to the neighborhood headman.