Infamous Turkish historian Yusuf Halacoglu criticized Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s policy on the Armenian issue.

Speaking to the Internethaber website of Turkey, Halacoglu, who is now an MP of Turkey’s opposition Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), harshly criticized the Turkish authorities for succumbing to the pressures of and making concessions in the Armenian Genocide recognition issue.     

The historian MP also claimed that the Armenians are lying when they say 1.5 million Armenians were killed in the genocide. He added that it was actually the Armenians who had massacred the Turks stressing that, as if, the Armenians had massacred 518,301 Turkish Muslims.       

Yusuf Halacoglu, criticizing Erdogan’s policy on the Armenian issue, also argued that even a small part of the Turkish society were to think like Erdogan, he would immediately recognize the Armenian Genocide.