Turkey sentences pro-Kurdish mayor to one year in jail

‘The mayor of the city of Siirt in southeastern Turkey has been sentenced to one year in prison for “disseminating terrorist propaganda.”
Tuncer Bakirhan was tried in absentia on Friday, according to Anadolu news agency.
Bakirhan is a member of Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party, also known as the HDP, which the government accuses of being the political wing of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). The party denies the accusation.’
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