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FILE - In this May 9, 2019 file photo, Ahmet Turk, the mayor of Mardin, southeastern Turkey, speaks in Ankara. Turkey's government says it has removed from office the elected mayors of three provinces in Turkey's mostly-Kurdish populated southeast region, including Turk, replacing them with government appointees. An Interior Ministry statement on Monday Aug. 19, 2019, accused the mayors of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party, of aiding the outlawed Kurdish rebel group, the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK.(AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici, File)

FILE - In this May 9, 2019 file photo, Ahmet Turk, the mayor of Mardin, southeastern Turkey, speaks in Ankara. Turkey's government says it has removed from office the elected mayors of three provinces in Turkey's mostly-Kurdish populated southeast region, including Turk, replacing them with government appointees. An Interior Ministry statement on Monday Aug. 19, 2019, accused the mayors of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party, of aiding the outlawed Kurdish rebel group, the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK.(AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici, File)

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