Ahmet Türk

Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) President Massoud Barzani met with Ahmet Türk, the ousted co-mayor of Mardin for the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), and Ağrı Co-Mayor Sırrı Sakık, on Feb. 27 to discuss the shattered peace process in Turkey.

Ahmet Türk, the ousted co-mayor of the southeastern province of Mardin, has paid a visit to former leader of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), Deniz Baykal, in Ankara. 

Türk visited Baykal, who is currently a CHP lawmaker from the southern province of Antalya, to express appreciation for the latter's visit to his family during his arrest.  

The ousted mayor of the southeastern province of Mardin, Ahmet Türk, who was released from prison on Feb. 3, has said he was treated well by the soldiers escorting him to a hospital in the eastern province of Elazığ. 

The ousted and jailed co-mayor of the southeastern province of Mardin, Ahmet Türk, has been released from prison after a Mardin Criminal Court of Peace received an application against his arrest. 

The ousted mayor of the southeastern province of Mardin, Ahmet Türk, was released on Feb. 3, Doğan News Agency has reported.

Earlier, the Istanbul Forensics Medical Institute on Feb. 3 had issued its report on the health of Türk, stating that he can remain arrested. 

Footage of Ahmet Türk, the ousted and jailed mayor of the southeastern province of Mardin, being brought to hospital in the eastern province of Elazığ has stirred debate among social media users and politicians due to accusations he was restrained in handcuffs despite his severe health condition. 

Four lawmakers from the opposition Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) were detained on Jan. 25, including Diyarbakır MP İmam Taşçıer, Sanlıurfa MP Osman Baydemir, Iğdır MP Mehmet Emin Adıyaman and Muş MP Ahmet Yıldırım.

The health report of Ahmet Türk, the ousted and jailed mayor of the southeastern province of Mardin, is missing, his lawyer Zeynep Boztoprak has said. 

Boztoprak said health checks were completed two weeks ago but that the report that could result in Türk's release was missing. 

Indictments regarding the jailed co-leaders of the Kurdish issue-focused Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) have been completed, with the prosecutor seeking up to 142 years in jail for Selahattin Demirtaş and up to 83 years in jail for Figen Yüksekdağ.

The outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) will "face destruction" after April 2017, Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu has predicted .

"Let me be clear, these days are their [PKK] good days. They will face such massive destruction that they can't even imagine," Soylu said in a ruling Justice and Development (AKP) meeting in the eastern province of Van on Dec. 9.