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TURKISH NATIONALIST MP "ACCUSES" KURDISH MAYOR OF "BEING ARMENIAN"
June 05, 2014 | 00:15
Turkey's ultra-nationalist and opposition Nationalist Movement Party
(MHP) MP Ozcan Yeniceri has "accused" newly elected City of Agri
Mayor Sirri Sakik of "being Armenian."
Yeniceri made a scandalous statement by once again using the word
"Armenian" in an offensive context, reported Kanalb website of Turkey.
"I don't know whether Mr. Sakik is Armenian or Kurdish, but being an
enemy to [Kazım] Karabekir Pasha means being a friend of the Armenian
bandits," the nationalist deputy stated.
Sakik had announced that his first task as Mayor of Agri will be to
remove the statues of Kazım Karabekir--the commander of the Eastern
Army in the Ottoman Empire at the end of World War I--from the city
streets and to rename the city streets named after him.
Sirri Sakik is one of the Turkish parliament's Kurdish members who
recognize the Armenian Genocide.
http://news.am/eng/news/212740.html
June 05, 2014 | 00:15
Turkey's ultra-nationalist and opposition Nationalist Movement Party
(MHP) MP Ozcan Yeniceri has "accused" newly elected City of Agri
Mayor Sirri Sakik of "being Armenian."
Yeniceri made a scandalous statement by once again using the word
"Armenian" in an offensive context, reported Kanalb website of Turkey.
"I don't know whether Mr. Sakik is Armenian or Kurdish, but being an
enemy to [Kazım] Karabekir Pasha means being a friend of the Armenian
bandits," the nationalist deputy stated.
Sakik had announced that his first task as Mayor of Agri will be to
remove the statues of Kazım Karabekir--the commander of the Eastern
Army in the Ottoman Empire at the end of World War I--from the city
streets and to rename the city streets named after him.
Sirri Sakik is one of the Turkish parliament's Kurdish members who
recognize the Armenian Genocide.
http://news.am/eng/news/212740.html