
HDP's Kulp District Co-Mayors Released on first hearing

2019-12-12 14:08:39


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	DİYARBAKIR -&nbsp;The co-mayors were remanded in custody over a bomb attack accusation that claimed seven lives in Diyarbakır.

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	The dismissed co-mayors of Kulp district in the mostly Kurdish-populated southeastern province of Diyarbakır has been released from prison.

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	Mehmet Fatih Taş and Fatma Ay were replaced with trustees by the Ministry of Interior and remanded in custody on September 17 over an explosion of a roadside bomb that killed seven people and injured 13 in Ağaçkorur village in Kulp.

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	Along with Taş and Ay, Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Kulp District Organization Chair Abidin Karaman, Civil Works Director of Kulp Municipality Şener Aktaş, Kulp Co-Mayor Fatma Ay and Mehmet Emin Ay were also sued for the explosion.

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	The five defendants were released after the first hearing of the case that was held at Diyarbakır 9th Heavy Penal court today (December 12).

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	Two days after the bomb attack in Diyarbakır, pro-government daily Yeni Şafak claimed that the attack was carried out by the HDP, citing "some security forces."

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	The Ministry of Interior has taken over 24 municipalities from the HDP since the local elections in March, dismissing co-mayors on the grounds of "terrorism-related investigations against them."&nbsp;