Two high ranking officials from pro-Kurdish parties — the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) and Democratic Regions Party (DBP) — were detained in a police operation carried out in Mardin on Monday morning.

The co-chairman of the HDP’s Nusaybin district branch, Sabiha Gündü, and the head of the DBP Nusaybin branch, Erhan Dinç, were detained in the operation. The detention of the pair comes after claims that there was a declaration of self-governance in the district.

Elsewhere in the country, three district co-mayors from the southeastern province of Diyarbakır and two co-mayors and one provincial official from the HDP in Hakkari province were arrested on Sunday after they declared autonomy from the Turkish state last week.