Turkey- PKK getting more foreign aid than ever: Deputy PM
(MENAFN- The Journal Of Turkish Weekly) The outlawedKurdistan Workers’ Party(PKK) is now getting more foreign aid than ever before Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmu said on April 6.
Speaking at the Anadolu Agency’s Editors’ Desk in Ankara Kurtulmu said the outlawed group received the largest amounts of foreign aid in its history while it got portrayed as a “disciple of peace.”
The aid also involved logistics support which enabled thePKKmilitants to “set up traps” against Turkish security forces the deputy prime minister said.
Kurtulmu said Turkey’s fight against terrorism was a serious and ongoing process highlighting that operations against the group would continue until the desired outcome is achieved.
“Terror is not just a matter of [fighting] a thousand militants. It is a perpetual process for Turkey. And we are dealing with it in a serious manner” he said.
“Hopefully we will get results. However it would be misleading to give an exact date asto when they will end.”
ThePKK– listed as a terrorist organization by the U.S. and the EU –resumed its 30-year armed campaign against the Turkish state in July 2015.
Since then over 350 Turkish security personnel and thousands ofPKKmilitants have been killed terrorists killed in operations across Turkey and northern Iraq according to official numbers.
During his remarks Kurtulmu also referred to the ongoing fight against the “parallel state” saying the struggle against the followers of U.S. Based Islamic Scholar Fetullah Gülen would continue in a legal manner.
“We have to protect the state and the nation. We would not blame anyone in an unjust manner or attack their individual rights. The struggle against the FETÖ [Fetullahist Terror Organization] organization is one that is being carried out in a lawful manner and it will continue.
“However if you are asking me when it will end we cannot give a date for it either” he said.
Headed by Gülen the “parallel state” represents a clandestine group of Turkish bureaucrats and senior officials allegedly embedded in the country’s institutions including the judiciary and the police.
The organization is also said to be behind a December 2013 corruption investigation into senior government figures including ministers.
Since early 2014 investigations into the “parallel state” have seen hundreds of civil servants including police and public prosecutors arrested or reassigned.
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