Turkey's First Assyrian Mayor Wants to Make a Difference
By Elif Merve Yediyildiz
Posted 2014-04-25 22:29 GMT
MARDIN -- Twenty-five-year-old Februniye Akyol was born and raised in a Syriac [Assyrian] family in Mardin's Midyat. She was not active in politics before the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) proposed her as a candidate to attract the attention of minorities and to declare itself as a comprehensive party. Although she was criticized for being appointed by Abdullah
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