<p style="text-align:left">Kiliçaslan circled the KRG flag and wrote on his Twitter account: “What was in the food mr. minister, soup of rags?”<br /> Kiliçaslan has later removed his tweet from his account.<br /> Kiliçaslan’s insult of the flag with the term of “soup of rags” has received widespread condemnation. The IYI Party official later removed the relevant tweet from his account.<br /> Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy Sezgin Tanrıkulu shared on his Twitter account the KRG flag and wrote: “Insult against the flag is an animosity against social peace, it is unacceptable.”<br /> “This flag, which is referred to as ‘rags,’ is the official flag of the Kurdistan Region, which has been defined in the Iraqi Constitution. A flag is the honor of every nation and of every citizen living under that flag,” Tanrikulu wrote.<br /> Çavuşoglu met with Barzani in the Turkish capital Ankara on September 4.<br /> In a Twitter post, the Turkish minister said the two officials discussed bilateral relations and the joint fight against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).<br /> Reporter's code: 50101</p>