Teams from the Bitlis Police Department’s anti-terror branch arrested Mayor Huseyin Olan as well as Nevin Dasdemir Dagkiran, an alderman in the municipality, as part of an anti-PKK probe, the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on talking to the media, said.
Police were also searching the municipality building.
Thursday’s detentions are the latest in a series of investigations into elected officials of Turkish municipalities.
On Nov. 17, the mayor of Tunceli, Mehmet Ali Bul, Van Mayor Bekir Kaya from the Democratic Regions Party (DBP), and four other municipality officials were arrested.