Istanbul Mayor Kadir Topbas isn’t exactly mincing words about last weekend’s failed coup attempt, announcing this week that he “ordered a space to be saved and to call it ‘the graveyard for traitors.’”
He is not speaking metaphorically, either. Hurriyet Daily News quotes Topbas saying, “passerby will curse the ones buried there,” and “they won’t be able to rest in their graves.”
He also told a group of anti-coup demonstrators that the mayor of Ordu province, on the Black Sea, refused to provide burial space for slain coup supporters — a measure Topbas approved of because he did not want their bodies to mingled with “religious people.” – READ MORE
