Far-right group targets the DTP

Hurriyet Daily News with wires

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The map bears the message, "We could come when you least expect it."

Alperen Ocakları, the youth movement of the far-right Greater Union Party, or BBP, sent the map, which also features a photo of Turkey’s founder, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, in uniform, and the words, "We will never forget, nor allow anyone to forget, the Misak-ı Milli borders." The "Misak-ı Milli borders" refers to the map of Turkey approved by the country’s first Parliament, when the leaders of the independence movement swore not to lay down their arms until those borders were established. 

Those borders constituted all lands of the Ottoman Empire that were free from Allied occupation when the truce was signed at the end of World War I. The initial map included Mosul and Kirkuk in Iraq and Batumi in Georgia. The Lausanne Treaty signed in 1923 revised the Misak-ı Milli map to set Turkey’s current borders.

Map

The map prepared by Alperen Ocakları includes parts of Georgia, Syria, Bulgaria, Iraq and western Thrace, much of Armenia, all of Cyprus and Rhodes in the Aegean Sea. The movement’s Kayseri branch in central Anatolia sent the map to the DTP deputies and the party’s Diyarbakır mayor, Osman Baydemir.

Far-right group targets the DTP