Turkey's interior ministry has dismissed three mayors in the country's southeast over terrorism charges.
According to an official statement by the ministry, the mayors of Diyarbakır, Mardin and Van provinces -- Adnan Selçuk Mızraklı, Ahmet Türk and Bedia Özgökçe Ertan -- have been suspended.
All mayors are from the Peoples' Democratic Party which has been accused by the Turkey of having links to the bloody-minded PKK terrorist organization, that has been waging a terror campaign against Turkish state more than three decades.