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UPDATED NUMBERS: Turkey jails 64 pro-Kurdish mayors, 3051 DBP members to date

UPDATED NUMBERS: Turkey jails 64 pro-Kurdish mayors, 3051 DBP members to date

by TurkeyPurge | Dec 21, 2016 | Today in Crackdown

The Turkish government has arrested a total of 64 co-mayors from the pro-Kurdish Democratic Regions Party (DBP) in the past couple of months, seized the administration of 46 municipalities, and jailed a total of 3,051 DBP members, according to the Diken news portal....

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