Bahçeli is ashamed
Kurdistan flag crisis escalates: I spoke of things national to the Prime-Minister and he left me embarrassed
cumhuriyet.com.trThe MHP leader has intensified his criticism of the flying of the Kurdistan flag during Barzani’s visit. Bahçeli, who gave Prime-Minister Yıldırım a ‘definition of a flag,’ said, ‘I am distressed, having praised things national to the prime-minister, to be faced with actions that leave me ashamed and embarrassed.
Having commented, ‘If the so-called flag is flown, the Turkish flag will have come down. If Barzani prefers us, I cannot ascribe good faith to this,’ Bahçeli’s stress that, ‘A horse shoe can be lost for the sake of a nail, as can a horse for the sake of a horse shoe, a cavalryman for the sake of a horse, and an army for the sake of a cavalryman’ has been interpreted as a ‘threat’.