A Turkish court has sentenced a pro-Kurdish mayor in the country’s south-east to more than 19 years in prison on charges of “leading an armed terrorist organization” and he was arrested, state news agency Anadolu reported on Wednesday. The arrest comes two days after the government replaced pro-Kurdish DEM Party’s Mehmet Siddik Akis, elected as Hakkari mayor in March, with the governor of the same province. The incident is reminiscent of the 2019 local elections, when a large number of the elected pro-Kurdish mayors were deposed by the government. The Interior Ministry said the replacement was…