ANKARA: The brother of an opposition candidate was killed and 4 different folks injured in clashes between opponents and supporters of the newly elected ruling-party mayor of a metropolis district in a predominantly Kurdish area of southeastern Turkey.
Supporters of President Tayyip Erdogan’s AK Social gathering (AKP) clashed with backers of the opposition DEVA (Treatment) Social gathering within the Pervari district of town of Siirt on Tuesday night time, following native elections on Sunday during which the opposition principally carried out properly throughout Turkey.
Within the district, the AKP candidate for mayor gained with 52% of the vote, whereas the DEVA candidate positioned second with 40%.
The governor’s workplace stated 5 folks had been damage within the clashes, one in all whom died of his wounds. The DEVA deputy chairman Mehmet Emin Ekmen recognized the one that died because the brother of the social gathering’s candidate.
DEVA was one in all six events within the opposition alliance earlier than Might 2023 common elections when Erdogan secured one other 5-year mandate and his ruling alliance a parliamentary majority.
Police are investigating the incident and 6 folks have been detained, the Siirt governor’s workplace stated, including that it had imposed a curfew in Pervari district till Thursday morning for safety causes.
Protests additionally unfold elsewhere in Turkey’s southeastern provinces on Tuesday night time, after Turkish authorities prevented the newly elected mayor from the pro-Kurdish DEM social gathering taking over his publish within the metropolis of Van, and introduced a re-run vote in Sanilurfa’s Hilvan district the place AKP misplaced.
Footage confirmed protesters in Batman province firing firecrackers at police, who sprayed them with water cannons, whereas scores of safety personnel have been stationed round Hakkari metropolis, the place protests additionally took maintain.
Supporters of President Tayyip Erdogan’s AK Social gathering (AKP) clashed with backers of the opposition DEVA (Treatment) Social gathering within the Pervari district of town of Siirt on Tuesday night time, following native elections on Sunday during which the opposition principally carried out properly throughout Turkey.
Within the district, the AKP candidate for mayor gained with 52% of the vote, whereas the DEVA candidate positioned second with 40%.
The governor’s workplace stated 5 folks had been damage within the clashes, one in all whom died of his wounds. The DEVA deputy chairman Mehmet Emin Ekmen recognized the one that died because the brother of the social gathering’s candidate.
DEVA was one in all six events within the opposition alliance earlier than Might 2023 common elections when Erdogan secured one other 5-year mandate and his ruling alliance a parliamentary majority.
Police are investigating the incident and 6 folks have been detained, the Siirt governor’s workplace stated, including that it had imposed a curfew in Pervari district till Thursday morning for safety causes.
Protests additionally unfold elsewhere in Turkey’s southeastern provinces on Tuesday night time, after Turkish authorities prevented the newly elected mayor from the pro-Kurdish DEM social gathering taking over his publish within the metropolis of Van, and introduced a re-run vote in Sanilurfa’s Hilvan district the place AKP misplaced.
Footage confirmed protesters in Batman province firing firecrackers at police, who sprayed them with water cannons, whereas scores of safety personnel have been stationed round Hakkari metropolis, the place protests additionally took maintain.
