[2] After she assumed as a mayor, she complained the state appointed trustee who held the office before her, left the municipality indebted.
[3] In November the same year she first detained and later arrested together with two other female mayors of the Mardin province.
[4] All three were accused of terror charges in relation to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
[4] Having been arrested in Mardin, she was transferred to Tarsus prison in December 2019.
[5][6] In March 2021, the prosecutor Bekir Sahin before the Court of Cassation asked for a political ban of 5 years for her and 686 other HDP politicians, together with a closure of the HDP before the Constitutional Court.