Turkey: Kurdish mayor of Gewir detained

gel.policeGEWIR, North Kurdistan, — Kurdish mayor of Gewir city Mr. Ruken Itishken who is given 10 months imprisonments was taken to Tatwan prison in Betilis to serve his sentence.

Mr. Ruken said in an interview that the escalating injustices against the Kurdish people are committed with the aim of annihilation of the Kurds.

Kurdish mayor reiterated that the injustice and the waves of arbitrary arrests would not demoralised the Kurds and even if the Turkish government kill them, there are more people to replenish and carry out the resistance.

Mr. Ruken was surrounded with Kurdish people who voted him into his office and protested against the arrest of their democratically elected representative.