The S&D group in the European Parliament was surprised on Friday 12 April that mayors of the pro-Kurdish HDP party, elected in the 31 March elections, were deprived of their mandate and replaced by candidates from other parties in second place.
The S&D group therefore demanded, in a statement, that mandates be given to all elected mayors who had been dismissed from public office by decrees adopted by the government following the 2016 coup attempt.
According to Saruhan Oluç, spokesman for...