PM says Turkey's cross border operations yield efficient results
Date
9/10/2015 6:49:00 PM
(MENAFN- The Journal Of Turkish Weekly) The Turkish military’s operations against terrorists inside and outside the country will continue the prime minister has said adding aerial campaigns against terrorists’ hideouts over the last two days have yielded efficient results. “Our determinacy in this fight [against terror] should be known very well by everybody” Prime MinisterAhmet Davutolusaid at a joint press conference with visitingEuropean UnionCouncil President Donald Tusk on Sept 10. “Hence Turkey’s aerial operations into northern Iraq continued yesterday and today and very efficient results have been taken.” A three-year ceasefire between the Turkish army and the outlawedKurdistan Workers’ Party(PKK) was broken in mid-July as the outlawed group resumed their violent acts in reaction to the government’s suspension of the Kurdish peace process. More than 100 security forces have been killed so far inPKKattacks inciting massive public outrage particularly in western parts of the country against the Kurdish problem-focused Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP). Davutolu and Tusk discussed the need for cooperation in the fight against all sorts of terror organizations as the former thanked the latter for the solidarity expressed byEuropeover recent terrorist attacks by the PKK the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and the Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C). “These developments indicate that terror is a crime against humanity regardless of differences in race religion or sects. I have stressed our responsibility in standing hand-in-hand againstPKKterrorism which has killed dozens of our citizens and security forces just like we stood together with Europe the EU and European countries in the struggle against ISIL” the prime minister said. Davutolu added the two leaders have discussed that steps should be taken in the prevention of financing terrorism. The two men also reviewed the ongoing refugee crisis which has hitEuropein the last week as thousands of people from mainly Middle Eastern and North African countries have flocked into the European continent. Turkey has become the country hosting more refugees than any other country in the world Davutolu said drawing attention to the fact the crisis is now knocking on the doors of Europe. “Although late this new understanding for a rapid reaction plan on refugees is a positive development. The EU mobilizing its mechanisms for refugees is an important step” he said. Davutolu also emphasized the need for close cooperation between Turkey and the EU on this matter informing the two sides will continue to be in close contact over the crisis.
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