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CONSECRATING CHURCH OF AKHTAMAR DID NOT MAKE YOU ARMENIAN
April 22, 2013 | 00:04
YEREVAN. - During a rally, Turkey's Nationalist Movement Party (MHP)
leader Devlet Bahceli, who opposes the PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan-led
process toward settling the country's Kurdish issue, strongly
criticized Erdogan.
Reflecting on the aforesaid process, the MHP chairman stated that
all this was organized hand-in-hand by the Turkish PM and Kurdistan
Workers' Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan, who is serving a life
sentence in Turkey, Haberler news agency of Turkey reports.
"When you received the 'Jewish award for courage,' that did not
make you a Jew. When you consecrated the church of Akhtamar, that
did not make you Armenian. When you organized a mass in the Sumela
Monastery, that did not make you a [Greek] Orthodox. But your visit
to the monuments of Orhon [that is, the oldest extant Turkish writings
dating back to the 8th century, discovered in the valley of the Orhon
River in northern Mongolia] likewise will not make you a Turk and a
nationalist," Devlet Bahceli stated addressing Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
News from Armenia - NEWS.am
From: Baghdasarian
April 22, 2013 | 00:04
YEREVAN. - During a rally, Turkey's Nationalist Movement Party (MHP)
leader Devlet Bahceli, who opposes the PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan-led
process toward settling the country's Kurdish issue, strongly
criticized Erdogan.
Reflecting on the aforesaid process, the MHP chairman stated that
all this was organized hand-in-hand by the Turkish PM and Kurdistan
Workers' Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan, who is serving a life
sentence in Turkey, Haberler news agency of Turkey reports.
"When you received the 'Jewish award for courage,' that did not
make you a Jew. When you consecrated the church of Akhtamar, that
did not make you Armenian. When you organized a mass in the Sumela
Monastery, that did not make you a [Greek] Orthodox. But your visit
to the monuments of Orhon [that is, the oldest extant Turkish writings
dating back to the 8th century, discovered in the valley of the Orhon
River in northern Mongolia] likewise will not make you a Turk and a
nationalist," Devlet Bahceli stated addressing Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
News from Armenia - NEWS.am
From: Baghdasarian