Exclusive | 9/11 family blasts Zohran Mamdani for associating with terror sympathizer Hasan Piker

A hero 9/11 family on Tuesday slammed Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani for associating with vile left-wing influencer Hasan Piker, who once said “America deserved” the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks.

“How can you hang around with someone who said, ‘America deserved 9/11?’ That’s disgraceful,” Wendi Turturici, 52, who became an EMT after the 9/11 attacks told The Post in an interview.

“Mamdani doesn’t deserve to be mayor,” she said. “I’m calling on [him] to disavow Hasan Piker and his hateful words.”

Her husband, Sal Turturici, 60, an FDNY emergency medical technician who removed bodies and body parts from Ground Zero to be sent to the morgue and now suffers stage 4 Neuroendocrine cancer added: “I don’t like Mamdani.”

The couple said they were endorsing Mamdani’s rival, ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo, in the November election, joining him for a press conference two days before the 24th anniversary of the terrorist attacks that killed 2,977 people.

Mamdani had appeared on Piker’s show earlier this year.

Piker once controversially said that “America deserved 9/11, dude. I’m saying it. I’m saying it. We f—ing totally brought it on ourselves dude. Holy shit. We did. We f–ing did.”

He has also said it “doesn’t matter if rapes happened” to women during Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel.

Wendi Turturici said Mamdani palling around with Piker is beyond the pale — and should disqualify him from being mayor..

She also pointed out that Mamdani once voiced his “love” for the five leaders of a notorious nonprofit convicted of funneling more than $12 million to the terror group Hamas. They were referred to as the Holy Land 5.

The Turturicis noted that as governor, Cuomo approved legislation providing benefits and disability pensions to 9/11 survivors. They appeared at Cuomo’s side during a bill signing ceremony in 2017.

Sal Turturici and Cuomo also rode motorcycles together to honor 9/11 first responders.

 “I know firsthand what kind of leader Andrew Cuomo is,” Wendi Turturici said.

 “As governor, he fought to secure benefits for 9/11 families, and he treated our community with the respect and dignity we deserve. That’s the kind of leadership New York City needs again.”

 The Post reached out to the Mamdani campaign for comment.