The government will take special measures to prevent several municipalities deliberately not providing services to districts, especially in southeastern provinces, where the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party's (HDP) regional affiliate Democratic Regions Party (DBP) runs the administration, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said on his return from a visit to Kazakhstan last weekend.According to the plan, Ankara will provide services and the expenses will be covered from the subsidies of the municipalities in order to forestall the deprivation of services for locals who voted for parties other than the HDP.Indicating that he had encountered complaints about the municipalities abusing subsidies during his visit to southeastern Mardin province, Davutoğlu said that some mayors might ignore district municipalities because of their political preferences."All their blame was to vote for a party other than the HDP? Then what are we going to do? We will make the investment there by taking from the subsidies allocated to the metropolitan municipalities from the center," he said.Davutoğlu gave the example of the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) in the Yeşilli district of Mardin province, whose municipality is run by the DBP: "Sixty-five percent of the subsidies go to the personnel employed by the Mardin Metropolitan Municipality. Aren't we going to question this? How is it that a municipality needs so much personnel that 65 percent of its financial resources are allocated for it? Why personnel? They are the members of the [PKK terrorist] organization. In reality, that much is not needed."Several DBP municipalities were previously claimed to be assisting the PKK in clashes with security forces in the southeastern province with digging trenches and erecting roadblocks to prevent security forces from entering cities.In August, the head of the HDP branch for Eleşkirt in Ağrı province was reportedly caught by security units while taking two people in his vehicle to the PKK. A court in January also sentenced a co-mayor of the eastern province of Van together with 17 other people to seven to 15 years in prison on charges of being PKK members.Regarding the government's "master plan," Davutoğlu also said that the initial reactions to it were positive and that it is the result of a process.Davutoğlu instructed governors to contact civil society organizations from each political view and he will visit a southeastern province each week in order to realize the "master plan."The plan clearly differentiates between combating terrorism and fighting terrorists, as it includes housing and social projects as well as projects to abolish unemployment. Since all government officials have reiterated re-establishing public order, reports indicate any matters besides those mentioned will not be addressed. The expectations of Kurdish citizens, democratic reforms and human rights actions will be addressed in the discussions on a new constitution.