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Detained in Diyarbakır on December 20, Sur District Co-Mayors Filiz Buluttekin and Cemal Özdemir have been arrested on charge of “being members of a terrorist organization”.

HDP’s District Co-Mayors of Muradiye, Özalp and Başkale in Turkey’s eastern province of Van have been detained on the ground that there are ongoing investigations against them.

HDP’s Savur District Co-Mayor Gülistan Öncü, Mazıdağı District Co-Mayor Nalan Özaydın, Derik District Co-Mayor Mülkiye Esmez and Suruç District Co-Mayor Hatice Çevik have been detained on the ground of ongoing investigations against them.

HDP Vice Co-Chair, Meral Danış Beştaş, reacting against arrest of 18 co-mayors as of July has called for government to return to democratic politics, Davutoğlu said HDP-led municipalities will account for.

Van Metropolitan Municipality Co-Mayor Bekir Kaya has been sentenced to 15 years of imprisonment within the trial he had been put on with charges of being a member of the terrorist organization. At the moment, 16 Municipality Co-Mayors sit in prison.

Prosecution has been launched against 36 DBP co-mayors from 24 districts in 11 cities as of August, 16 co-mayors enter the new year in prison.

In three months, 18 co-mayors from nine provinces and two provincial council speakers were arrested; one of them was put under house arrest; four co-mayors weren’t arrested but unseated.