ANTI-ARMENIAN POLITICIAN REELECTED TURKISH PARLIAMENT LEADER
July 03, 2013 | 13:43
By Artur Hakobyan
ANKARA. – Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) member
Cemil Cicek was reelected Grand National Assembly (parliament) Speaker.
But it was solely during the third-round of voting that Cicek was
reelected to this post, Hurriyet daily of Turkey reports.
To note, Cemil Cicek is known for his anti-Armenian stance. He
was Turkey’s justice minister when a lawsuit was filed against
Hrant Dink-the founder and chief editor of Istanbul’s Agos Armenian
bilingual weekly, who was gunned down in 2007 in front of his office
building-under the Turkish Criminal Code’s infamous Article 301,
that is, for explicitly insulting the Turkish identity.
Also, Cicek had expressed his fear of the Armenians in 2009. As a
result of the local government elections in that year, a Kurd was
elected mayor of Igdir city-which borders Armenia-for the first time
after the rule of Azerbaijani mayors in this city for 85 consecutive
years. In this respect, Cemil Cicek had said: “The Kurds have
established at the border with Armenia.”
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