Turkish police on Wednesday detained Sinem Dedetaş, the first female mayor of İstanbul’s Üsküdar district who ended 30 years of Islamist-based rule, and five others in a corruption investigation, the latest step in a legal crackdown on municipalities run by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s opponents, Turkish Minute reported. Police carried out simultaneous raids at 11 […] The post First female mayor of former AKP stronghold detained in corruption probe appeared first on Stockholm Center for F...