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.