“Turkey became a country that followed Greeks in Cyprus, Barzani [Iraqi Kurdish leader Massoud] in Iraq, and Armenians in the Caucasus. It gave Iraqi Turkmens a cold shoulder and made Azerbaijani brothers upset. It also forgot our brothers in the Balkans,” Hurriyet Daily quotes the chairman of Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) Devlet Bahceli.

The source informs that at the Ankara meeting organized by MHP, Bahceli reckoning Turkey is at risk of division. “Our country is now facing much bigger and more important threats and risks,” he stated.

The MHP leader directly addressed Turkish Premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan, saying, “As a prime minister, you are responsible for the safety of the country. You don't have the responsibility for those bloody-handed terrorists but for innocent victims among our people. Give up the destruction of this so-called initiative. You have damaged our national values too much over the last seven years. You encouraged those betrayers by asserting their ‘being from Turkey and Turkish.’ You've invited the [terrorists] to negotiate at the table and cooperated with Ymraly [the island where terrorist leader Abdullah Ocalan is imprisoned].”

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