Turkish police detained the mayor of the southeastern city of Mardin Ahmet Turk as part of the ongoing terror probe on links between the PKK terrorist organization and the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) municipalities, Daily Sabah reported.
The police are conducting searches in the Mardin’s city administration.
Earlier, Turkish authorities announced the decision to dismiss 28 heads of local administrations of regions in the southeast of the country for their link with PPK. This decision was made as part of the state of emergency imposed in the country after the failed coup attempt which took place on July 15.
Ten deputies pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic party and mayors of a number of cities inhabited mainly by Kurds in the southeast of Turkey, including Diyarbakir and Van, were arrested on charges of having links with PKK.