The leader of an opposition nationalist party on Tuesday criticized recent commemorations in Paris of the centenary of the end of World War I, as it marked the end of the Ottoman Empire.
"What will we commemorate about this unfortunate agreement? Will we gloat over our collapsed empire?" Devlet Bahceli, head of the opposition Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), asked at his party's parliamentary group meeting on Tuesday.
"The Turkish nation emerged from the wreckage" after World War I, said Bahceli.
"The cease-fire agreement, whose 100th anniversary was commemorated in Paris" was a "declaration of our execution" and is devoid of morals, ethics, and conscience, he said.
On Sunday, a ceremony near Paris' Arc de Triomphe on the Champs-Elysees hosted the centenary of the end of World War I.
The Armistice of Nov. 11, 1918, signed between the Allies and Germany, put an official end to World War I. -
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