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The employee of the Azerbaijani embassy to Ankara, the capital city of Turkey, diplomat Elsever Salamanov has made statements of racist nature addressing it to the newspaper, the employees of the newspaper and the Armenians in particular. The Turkish “Radical” newspaper has referred to the insolent behavior of Elsever Salamanov.

The thing is that Salmanov did not like the fact that the song “Sari Gelin” is titled as Armenian in the brochures of the musical festival to be held in Ankara. The Azerbaijani diplomat could not resist himself from making hateful statements. “Radical” newspaper has presented the note made by the Azerbaijani diplomat on his Facebook page.

“On April 3 and 4 Ankara music festival was scheduled to be held. I looked through the booklets with information about the musical works. While looking through I came across to an extremely outrageous record which said that the song "Sari Gelin" was allegedly Armenian, moreover, it was written with capital letters. This issue will be interpreted in different ways. Question arises, why should the newspaper expose itself to such a test?”

The Azerbaijani diplomat comes to conclusion that either there are Armenians among the employees of the newspaper who, by betraying the principles of the newspaper, have been guided by patriotic feelings, or the newspaper Radical devotedly serves the Armenians. The Azerbaijani diplomat has called on his supporters to insult the Armenians and the newspaper "Radical."

In this concern columnist of "Radical" newspaper Denise Dzheyker has accused Salmanov of violating diplomatic ethics and inciting ethnic hatred. He has appealed to the Turkish Foreign Ministry and has asked to give an adequate assessment to the behavior of the Azerbaijani diplomat and to deport him from the country.