Turkey’s Erdogan campaigns on ethnic purity
““Mr. Erdoğan has talked about my mother and my father. Now, in a speech in Gaziantep, he even questioned my kin,” Kılıçdaroğlu said Monday, adding that he was proud of his ancestry and his family.
“I have a suggestion to Mr. Recep. If he wants to learn about my family, then he can examine the state records. But if he is so curious about people’s ancestry, he may as well come and measure my skull. I would not mind it.”
Measuring skull was an old custom among ultra-nationalists to prove one’s roots of pure Turkishness.”