ISTANBUL. – Turkey’s Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) MP Ahmet Duran Bulut made a very unflattering statement with respect to Istanbul-Armenian journalist Etyen Mahcupyan’s inclusion in the Commission of Wise Men, which the Turkish authorities have set up to resolve the country’s Kurdish issue,

Istanbul’s Agos Armenian bilingual weekly informs that, reflecting on Mahcupyan’s inclusion in this commission, the Turkish nationalist MP said the following with irony:  

“There are Armenians in the list; a smart man. [But] I do not need an Armenian’s intellect. What can an Armenian think for the Turkish nation? They have brought and selected as wise men those that opposed the state, the people that wished to take revenge upon the Turkish nation until recently.”