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Turkey’s crackdown on mayors amounts to coup, says opposition party

The arrest last week of five mayors from the Peoples’ Democratic Party leaves it with control of just a fifth of the cities it won in an election last year.

Pervin Buldan, co-leader of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party, takes part in a protest against the detention of local politicians in Diyarbakir, Turkey, Oct. 25, 2019. — REUTERS/Sertac Kayar

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