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HDP had won 65 municipalities in the local elections in 2019, with 48 of them having trustees appointed to replace the elected mayors by the central government following the elections. Ağrı Patnos Municipality where the co-mayors and the HR Manager have been detained since June 9, remains one of the six municipalities still governed by HDP.

The Patnos Directorate of Debt Collection has freezed the bank accounts of the HDP’s Patnos District Municipality in Ağrı due to the debt incurred during the term of AKP’s Cem Afşin Akbay in office.

HDP Ağrı MP Dirayet Dilan Taşdemir has submitted a parliamentary inquiry, requesting that a parliamentary investigation be launched into the allegations of battery and maltreatment as well as poor quality of water and epidemics in Patnos Prison.