Trustee Appointed to Yüksekova Municipality

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Hakkari’s Yüksekova district sub-Governor Mahmut Kaşıkçı has been appointed as trustee to the district.

Yüksekova Co-Mayors Ruken Yetişkin and Tacettin Safalı were suspended from their post on October 15, 2015 for attending a press meeting in which self-governance was declared.

Municipality Assembly had replaced the co-mayors with Adile Kozay and Hüsnü Beşer as deputy co-mayors. Başar on April 15, 2016 and Kozay on December 9, 2016 were arrested.

Trustees have been appointed to 45 DBP-governed municipalities

As of December 19, 12:30 p.m. the number of trustees appointed to DBP-governed municipalities has risen to 45.

There are 64 DBP co-mayors under arrest.

About Mahmut Kaşıkçı

Born in 1971 in Çorum, Kaşıkçı graduated from İstanbul University Department of Economy. He served as sub-governor candidate in Çorum Governorship and worked as sub-governor in Vezirköprü district in Samsun province. He is married, with one child. (ÇT/TK)