Amed trustee's first action: 29 staff dismissed

The first measure taken by Diyarbakir Governor and now trustee of Amed Municipality, Hasan Basri Güzeloğlu, has been to dismiss once again 29 civil servants and to suspend the contract to 8 workers.

AKP Governor Hasan Basri Güzeloğlu, who was appinted trustee of Amed Metropolitan Municipality by the Ministry of Interior, dismissed some of the Municipality personnel on the first day and suspended working contracts for some of them.

In a statement Hasan Basri Güzeloğlu said that the officials had been suspended before the 31 March elections for their alleged links with an illegal organisation and were reinstated after the elections. He added that the 29 have now been dismissed again.