Siirt mayor Sadak dismissed from office
Siirt mayor Sadak dismissed from office
Siirt mayor Selim Sadak who has been dismissed on Wednesday said that this decision was taken to prevent BDPs (Peace and Democracy Party) advance in the province of Siirt.
Mayor Sadak was dismissed from his office following the approval of the ten-month prison sentence Diyarbakýr 5th High Criminal Court handed down in 2008 on the grounds of a speech he made at the funeral ceremony of a Kurdish guerrilla in 2006. Diyarbakýr Public Prosecutors' Office had postponed by six months the implementation of the prison sentence at the request of the mayor, citing Sadak currently being the mayor and due to his personal works.
In an interview to ANF, Sadak pointed out that the Turkish Council of State approved the prison sentence following Interior Ministrys appeal for his conviction.
BDP Mayor underlined that neither the Kurdish people nor their politicians in Turkey have been able to benefit from law within the period of the AKP government which he added- imposed unjust treatment against Kurds in line with the so-called democratic initiative policies and so-called law amendments.
Commenting Turkish Prime Minister Erdoðans statements on democracy as deception, Sadak said that; Those who give democracy lessons to Syrian president Assad should see their own outrages as all BDP deputies, mayors and politicians are either put in prison or dismissed from duty. Is this what Erdoðan calls democracy?
Pointing out that Turkey can no more be ruled with the current laws and policies, the BDP mayor said that his dismissal came after the announcement of results of AKP governments most recent survey in Siirt in which 80 to 86 percent of participants said they would vote for BDP in local elections.
Sadak noted that AKP Siirt provincial chair and deputies have prevented BDP Siirt Municipality from working properly and in an adequate environment in the city.
Sadak added underlining that the BDP will continue to take sides with the Kurdish people under any circumstances.
Mayor Sadak was dismissed from his office following the approval of the ten-month prison sentence Diyarbakýr 5th High Criminal Court handed down in 2008 on the grounds of a speech he made at the funeral ceremony of a Kurdish guerrilla in 2006. Diyarbakýr Public Prosecutors' Office had postponed by six months the implementation of the prison sentence at the request of the mayor, citing Sadak currently being the mayor and due to his personal works.
In an interview to ANF, Sadak pointed out that the Turkish Council of State approved the prison sentence following Interior Ministrys appeal for his conviction.
BDP Mayor underlined that neither the Kurdish people nor their politicians in Turkey have been able to benefit from law within the period of the AKP government which he added- imposed unjust treatment against Kurds in line with the so-called democratic initiative policies and so-called law amendments.
Commenting Turkish Prime Minister Erdoðans statements on democracy as deception, Sadak said that; Those who give democracy lessons to Syrian president Assad should see their own outrages as all BDP deputies, mayors and politicians are either put in prison or dismissed from duty. Is this what Erdoðan calls democracy?
Pointing out that Turkey can no more be ruled with the current laws and policies, the BDP mayor said that his dismissal came after the announcement of results of AKP governments most recent survey in Siirt in which 80 to 86 percent of participants said they would vote for BDP in local elections.
Sadak noted that AKP Siirt provincial chair and deputies have prevented BDP Siirt Municipality from working properly and in an adequate environment in the city.
Sadak added underlining that the BDP will continue to take sides with the Kurdish people under any circumstances.
