DİYARBAKIR - Taken into custody twice after being removed from office by the Interior Ministry, HDP’s dismissed Batman Provincial Co-Mayor Mehmet Demir has been arrested on charge of “being a member of a terrorist organization.”

 

Removed from office by the Ministry of Interior in late March, Peoples' Democratic Party's (HDP) dismissed Batman Co-Mayor Mehmet Demir has been arrested. As reported by the state-run Anadolu Agency (AA), he is charged with "being a member of an armed terrorist organization."

 

Demir was taken into custody on July 21 as part of an investigation launched by Diyarbakır Chief Public Prosecutor's Office on October 9, 2018.

 

After the related formalities were completed at Diyarbakır Security Directorate, Demir was first referred to the prosecutor's office for his deposition, then to the Penal Judgeship of Peace on Duty to be arrested.

 

The judgeship has ruled that Mehmet Demir shall be arrested on charge of "being a member of an organization." As reported by Mezopotamya Agency (MA), Demir has been sent to Diyarbakır Type D Prison.