A court in Turkey on June 5 jailed a pro-Kurdish mayor for 19 and a half years for “terrorism”, his lawyer said, a ruling denounced as a “coup d’etat” by his party. Mehmet Siddik Akis was removed from his post and placed in detention just two days earlier, prompting protests and brawls in Turkey’s parliament....

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