Under the open sky, male and female fighters in khaki fatigues stepped forward one by one to place their weapons into a pit.

His deportation follows the recent revocation of his Russian citizenship, which occurred a few days earlier.

Earlier in the week, Turkey’s former CHP mayor of Izmir and 137 municipal staff were detained in connection with investigations into tender-rigging and fraud.

“Beyond the formal label, these relations embody profound meaning — our shared history as part of a single state,” she said.

"The fact that the Alican border gate will bear the name of Talaat Pasha is not a mere change of signage," said the nationalist leader.