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Turkey removes Kurdish mayor from officeANKARA, Sept 19 (AFP) Turkey's highest administrative court on Thursday removed from office a Kurdish mayor, citing his conviction for sedition, Anatolia news agency reported. Sahabettin Ozaslaner, the mayor of the eastern city of Van, told Anatolia that he would appeal the ruling and might also apply to the European Court of Human Rights. "I have been removed from office without presenting my defense," said Ozaslaner, who is a member of the pro-Kurdish People's Demoracy Party (HADEP). The agency said the court based its decision on Ozaslaner's conviction for "inciting hatred on racial differences" in pro-Kurdish remarks he made at a party congress in 1998. The Turkish law bars those convicted under the said article from standing in elections. The court said the
conviction had deprived Ozaslaner of his eligibility and he could not continue
holding his office, which he won in local elections in 1999, according to
Anatolia.
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