The Turkish police have identified the man whose video footage with racist and anti-Armenian content was widely shared in the social media recently.
A deputy interior minister, Sebahattin Ozturk, said the man was a security officer who has been dismissed from service, Agos reports.
In the footage, he appears against the background of the ruins in the town Sur (Diyarbekir province).
The district where he shot the scene has been under curfew since December. It is home to the Armenian church of St Giragos.
The man was sacked after a lawmaker from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democracy Party, Nadir Yildirim, applied to Interior Minister Efkan Ala, calling his attention to the racist and xenophobic statements, and threats heard in the footage.  In a subsequent phone conversation with Garo Palyan, a Turkish-Armenian MP elected from the HDP party, Ozturk said that the man was no longer in service.

The video features the ravages in the district, caused by the recent violent clashes. The Turkish-Armenian publication claims that it has been shot by a team of professionals.