The fascist AKP-MHP government has seized the HDP-run municipalities of Iğdır, Siirt, Kurtalan and Baykan bringing to 44 the municipalities to which it has appointed trustees so far.

Turkish Interior Ministry has dismissed Siirt Municipality co-mayor Berivan Helen Işık, Baykan Municipality co-mayor Ramazan Sarsılmaz, Kurtalan Municipality co-mayor Baran Akgül and Iğdır co-mayor Yaşar Akkuş. All HDP co-mayors were replaced by state-nominated trustees: in Siirt the Governor Ali Fuat Atik, in Baykan District Governor Mehmet Tunç, in Kurtalan İhsan Emre Aydın.

Following the appointment of trustees, the surroundings of the municipal buildings were cordoned off by the police.

The dismissed co-mayor of Siirt Berivan Helen Işık, Iğdır Municipality co-mayors Yaşar Akkuş and Eylem Çelik, Baykan co-mayor Ramazan Sarsılmaz and Kurtalan co-mayor Baran Akgül were taken into custody.

HDP has won 65 municipalities, 3 of which metropolitan cities. 44 municipalities have been seized and taken over by trustees so far.