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From · resolution motion joint · 12 Feb 2025 RC-10-2025-0100 on the recent dismissals and arrests of mayors in Türkiye
To · Adopted text · 13 Feb 2025 TA-10-2025-0016 Recent dismissals and arrests of mayors in Türkiye
✦ In short · AI narration of the differences below, generated 4 Sept 2026

The changes are substantive: one broadens the legal status of mayors to include convictions, and the other shifts the call from continuing to resuming the peace process. #1#2

2 changes of substance. Each change below carries a one-line ✦ note from the same model. Written from the two texts only — read the highlighted passages before relying on it.

The changes to the text itself, in document order. Cover page, citations (“having regard to …”), standard resolution paragraphs and punctuation-only edits are left out — they are in “Show every difference”.

Change #1 Substance

Adds "or convicted" to the description of mayors' legal situations, broadening the category to include those already convicted.

E. whereas several mayors, including DEM mayors Mehmet Sıddık Akış (Hakkâri) and Abdullah Zeydan (Van), have been arrested or convicted on the basis of vague and unsubstantiated terrorism-related allegations; whereas Ekrem İmamoğlu, Mayor of Istanbul, is facing multiple legal challenges and possible political disqualification;

Change #2 Substance

Replaces "continue" with "resume" regarding the Kurdish peace process, implying a restart rather than ongoing continuation.

3. Expresses deep concern over the impact of these actions on local governance, particularly in Kurdish-majority areas; underlines the need to continueresume the Kurdish peace process;