Elected in 2014 as co-mayors for Hakkari province, Dilek Hatipoğlu and Nurullah Çiftçi were arrested due to their self-governance declarations in August 2015, and were sentenced to 15 years in prison on charge of “disrupting unity and integrity of the state”.
Siyasetmedarên kurd piştî hefteyek sewqî dadgehê hatin kirin û derbarê wan de bi îdiaya “endamên rêxistinê ne” biryara girtinê hat dayîn.