Turkish police detained four mayors from a pro-Kurdish party in dawn raids, wide...
ANKARA - Turkish police detained four mayors from a pro-Kurdish party in dawn raids, widening a crackdown since Ankara launched an incursion into northern Syria a week ago, state media and the party said on Tuesday.
The pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party mayors of the Kurdish-majority districts of Hakkari, Yuksekova, Ercis and Nusaybin, near Turkey’s borders with Syria and Iraq, were held over terrorism links, the HDP and Anadolu news agency said, without elaborating. While most of Turkey’s opposition parties have backed the operation, the HDP has called for it to stop, describing it as an “invasion attempt”. HDP says the operation was an attempt by the government to drum up support amid declining public backing.
Turkey has said its operation does not target Kurds and only the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia, which it says is a terrorist organization and the Syrian offshoot of the PKK. It says the PKK and YPG should not be equated with the Kurdish people.
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