Turkish authorities detained a total of 89 people across the country for joining “unauthorized” demonstrations Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya wrote on Wednesday on X, formerly Twitter. The protests in south-eastern Turkey and the Aegean province of Izmir followed an election authority decision to prevent a newly elected mayor from the pro-Kurdish People’s Equality and Democracy Party (DEM) in the south-eastern city of Van from taking his post. DEM’s Abdullah Zeydan was denied his mayoral mandate even though he was elected mayor in Sunday’s local elections with around 55% of the vote, the part…