Kurdish mayor ousted by Turkish authorities dies in exile in Germany at 72

Hasan Basri Fırat, a former Kurdish mayor who was removed from office in 2016 and later left Turkey amid a government crackdown on Kurdish politicians, has died at the age of 72, the İlke TV news website reported. He died at a hospital in the western German city of Wuppertal after undergoing heart surgery five […] The post Kurdish mayor ousted by Turkish authorities dies in exile in Germany at 72 appeared first on Stockholm Center for Freedom.

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