British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson | Yana Paskova/Getty Images Turkish town promises to ‘sacrifice many sheep in Boris’ honor’ Britain’s foreign secretary is a hero in Kalfat.

A small Turkish town is so proud of British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson that it would sacrifice sheep in his honor and repaint all the buildings if he were to visit.

Kalfat in Cankiri province is the ancestral homeland of Johnson’s great-grandfather on his father's side, Ali Kemal. And despite the former mayor of London's support for Brexit and limiting the number of foreigners entering the U.K., the villagers are still happy to call him one of their own.

“We will sacrifice many sheep in Boris’ honor. We will repave our roads, repaint our buildings. We will give him the complete red carpet treatment if he visits his ancestral village,” Adem Karaagac, the village headman, told Middle East Eye.

Karaagac said villagers have been keeping abreast of British politics and were disappointed when Johnson didn't succeed David Cameron as prime minister.

“Our Boris was ready to be prime minister. But now he can gain more experience as foreign minister before becoming prime minister. That will be better for him as well,” he said.

"What I have noticed on television is that his mannerisms and body movements also strongly resemble those of the people in our village,” said Karaagac. “It’s a small village and many of the people are distantly related. Even my wife is somehow related to Boris.”

Johnson angered many Turks earlier this year when he wrote a rude limerick about the president of Turkey having sex with a goat.

It went:

“There was a young fellow from Ankara

Who was a terrific wankerer

Till he sowed his wild oats

With the help of a goat

But he didn’t even stop to thankera.”

Johnson told the Spectator magazine: “If somebody wants to make a joke about the love that flowers between the Turkish president and a goat, he should be able to do so, in any European country, including Turkey.”

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