Turkish police on Tuesday detained the co-mayors of the mainly Kurdish southeast's biggest city, part of a government crackdown after more than a year of militant violence in the region, security sources said.
Gultan Kisanak, a former parliamentarian before her election as mayor in Diyarbakir, and Firat Anli, her co-mayor, were taken into custody as part of the local prosecutor's investigation into terrorism links, the sources said.