A prominent Turkish nationalist Yusuf Ziya Arpacik was arrested on charges of organizing a provocation at the rally of Nationalist Movement Party to be held on June 6.

Turkish police arrested 17 people who intended to organize a provocation at a campaign rally, Internethaber reports.

Yusuf Ziya Arpacik is a participant of Karabakh war. He was fighting against Armenians in 1992. In 2003 he left for Iraq to fight against Americans. 

He is a member of ultra nationalist the Idealist Movement.