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Arrested and dismissed Co-Mayor of Batman Mehmet Demir made his defense in Kurdish. As three Kurdish interpreters were unable to interpret his speech “because he was speaking in academic Kurdish,” Demir refused to make defense.

Taken into custody twice after being removed from office by the Interior Ministry, HDP’s dismissed Batman Provincial Co-Mayor Mehmet Demir has been arrested on charge of “being a member of a terrorist organization.”

Removed from office by the Ministry of Interior, HDP’s Batman Provincial Co-Mayor Mehmet Demir has been detained as part of an investigation launched in 2018.