The photograph posted by Deniz Güzelay, vice chairman of the Istanbul chapter of Idealist Hearths—the youth wing of the ultranationalist Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) of Turkey, has caused quite a stir in Turkish social media. 

Güzelay posted a photograph of several nationalists holding automatic weapons and wrote that 5,000 Turkish nationalists were ready to head to Kirkuk, in northern Iraq, to protect the Iraqi Turkmens, according to Cumhuriyet (Republic) daily of Turkey.

Several days ago, MHP Chairman Devlet Bahçeli had stated that 5,000 Turkish nationalists stand ready to leave for northern Iraq.