The removal of Cizre mayor Aydın Budak from office has turned out to have been decided without the council of state's ruling.

Cizre mayor Aydın Budak was arrested in the scope of the KCK (Kurdistan Communities Union) main case in 2009 in relation with a speech he had made during Newroz celebrations in Şırnak's Cizre district on 21 March 2007.

Following the trial at Diyarbakır 5th High Criminal Court, Budak was found guilty of “spreading propaganda for a terror organization”. The court also ruled Budak's removal from the office. Following the court's decision, on 24 April 2012, the Ministry of the Interior demanded the penal department no. 8 of the council of state take the necessary action for the Budak's removal from office.

Regardless of the law for municipalities which says that an elected mayor could be removed from office upon the state council's decision, Mehmet Ali Sağlam, the district governor of the time, arbitrarily conveyed an official letter to the Cizre Municipality confirming Budak's discharge from office in February 2012, before the announcement of the decision of the state council.

Forty days after the district governor's letter, the Ministry of the Interior ordered Budak's and five municipal council members' removal from office as an interim measure.

The decision of the Ministry means that Budak has not been dismissed but temporarily removed from office.