Mülkiye Türk

When Deniz Baykal, the former chairman of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), heard that Ahmet Türk, the co-mayor of the Syria border city of Mardin, had been taken into police custody on Nov. 21, he immediately decided to go to Mardin to talk to Türk in solidarity. 

The ousted mayor of the southeastern province of Mardin, Ahmet Türk, was arrested on "terror" charges on Nov. 24, becoming the latest Kurdish politician to be arrested.