Police Detains Van Mayor

Police conducted searches at a number of homes and offices today, including the home of Van Mayor Bekir Kaya, as part of the operations against the KCK. They then proceeded to detain Mayor Kaya and five other district mayors this morning.

The search at the Van Municipality's Press Directorate and Mayor Kaya's office has finally come to an end, according to information we have obtained from the municipality's Press Office.

Law enforcement officials detained Van Mayor Bekir Kaya, Edremit District Mayor Abdülkerim Sayan, Özalp District Mayor Murat Durmaz, Muradiye District Mayor İzzet Çelik, Çaldıran District Mayor Metin Adıgil, Bostaniçi District Mayor Nezahat Ergüneş and ten other members of the BDP within the scope of the investigation ran by the Van specially authorized Deputy Chief Prosecutor's Office.

Some 90 students were also taken under custody yesterday within the scope of the KCK operations in Istanbul, Ankara, the central province of Kırıkkale and the southeastern provinces of Diyarbakır and Mardin.

The students were members of the Student Commission of the Health and Social Service Workers' Union (KESK) and the Turkish Medical Association's (TTB) Medical Students Branch. (NV)