Ankara: Turkish minister for European Union (EU) and chief negotiator Egemen Bagis has slammed a few European countries over their compromise with Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), internationally recognized terrorist party.
Bagis Friday called on EU member states to take necessary measures to counter PKK terrorists.
Referring to European countries, he expressed hope that “those who open their gates to the PKK militants and don’t expel them” would recognize how grave their mistakes are.
“[This is] because the security of Paris, Berlin, and Brussels begins from [Turkish cities] Sirnak, Batman, Ankara and Istanbul,” he added.
PKK is a separatist terrorist group that launched an armed insurgency in 1984 for a separate Kurdish homeland in Turkey’s southeast. The Turkish government says some 2,000 PKK elements are operating close to the Turkish-Iraqi border in northern Iraq.
Turkey held PKK responsible for the loss of nearly 45,000 Turkish lives over the past two decades.
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