Several protesters were hurt and detained on Tuesday after security forces moved in during a demonstration against the removal of a pro-Kurdish mayor in Turkey’s southeast, witnesses told AFP. The trouble came a day after the government announced the replacement of the mayor from the DEM party, which authorities accuse of links to outlawed Kurdish militants. Mehmet Siddik Akis was the first to be dismissed since local elections in March, in which DEM gained control of local authorities in several large towns in Turkey’s Kurdish-majority southeast. Eyewitnesses told AFP that there were arrests …