Selahattin Demirtaş, an MP for Democratic Society Party (DTP), the only Kurdish party in the Turkish Parliament, gave a rather adverse response to the Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Cemil Çiçek’s anti-Armenian statement. He advised Çiçek to circumcise Kurds himself.

Responding to Çiçek’s statement that some members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) are uncircumcised, which means a lot, (namely, that they are allegedly Armenians), Demirtaş advised the Turkish Government to silence Çiçek if they really want to resolve the Kurdish problem, Firat news agency reports.

To deceive the public Çiçek claims the PKK insurgents are uncircumcised. He thinks the Kurdish problem is a matter of circumcision rather than of identity, language and culture of the Kurdish people. If he thinks so, let him go to Qandil Mountains (northern Iraq) and resolve the problem, Demirtaş said.

At his meeting with businessmen, the Turkish Deputy Prime Minister spoke of terrorism in the 1980s. In this context he pointed out close ties between the Armenian “terrorism” and the PKK terrorism. He claimed some of the PKK members are not circumcised, which means they are Armenians.