Turkey is yet again cracking down on the Kurdish political movement. Only weeks after president Recep Tayyip Erdogan hinted at a new peace process with the banned militant group PKK, his government has ousted several democratically elected Kurdish mayors of the legal DEM party. In the city of Batman, a female mayor elected with five times more votes than Erdogan’s AK party, is now accused of terrorism and kicked out of office. Watch this report from FRANCE 24’s Turkey correspondent Jenna Le Bras with Melvyn Ingleby.
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Protests erupt after Turkey fires two pro-Kurdish mayors
