Turkey on November 4 sacked three mayors in the Kurdish-majority southeast on alleged terrorism charges, despite Ankara’s efforts to seek a rapprochement with the Kurdish community. In a sweep, the mayors of the southeastern cities of Mardin and Batman as well as Halfeti — a district in the Sanliurfa province — were removed from their...

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