Protests erupt after Turkey fires two pro-Kurdish mayors
Turkey is yet again cracking down on the Kurdish political movement. Only weeks after president Recep Tayyip Erdogan hinted at a new peace process with the banned militant group PKK, his government has ousted several democratically elected Kurdish mayors of the legal DEM party. In the city of Batman, a female mayor elected with five times more votes than Erdogan's AK-party, is now accused of terrorism and kicked out of office. Watch this report from FRANCE 24’s Turkey correspondent Jenna Le Bras with Melvyn Ingleby.