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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.

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