"Baydemir faces more criminal charges
The New Anatolian with AP / Ankara
A prosecutor on Wednesday filed the second set of charges in as many days against Diyarbakir Mayor Osman Baydemir, further troubling a politician who has already been accused of encouraging Kurds to rise up against the Turkish state.
Baydemir, the mayor of the largest city in the southeast region, Diyarbakir, was also charged with corruption for a 2004 city modernization tender.
The state prosecutor asked that Baydemir be sentenced to three years in prison, claiming that his rejection of one firm's bid to modernize Diyarbakir's water system in favor of another had cost the city almost 1 million YTL, more than $600,000."
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