Former Diyarbakır Metropolitan Mayor Adnan Selçuk Mızraklı has been sentenced to over nine years in prison for charges related to terrorism, state-run Anadolu Agency reported on March 9.
Mızraklı, the former mayor of Diyarbakı from the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) received jail time on charges of "being a member of a terrorist organization" and "spreading terrorist propaganda," the agency cited anonymous security sources as saying.
In mid-August, mayors in Diyarbakır, Mardin and Van provinces were suspended over alleged terror links; they were all from the HDP, which Turkey’s government accuses of having links to the PKK terror group.
PKK is listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the United States, and the European Union.
