Erdogan: PKK suffering heaviest blows in its history
GENEVA: Turkey’s president said yesterday that the PKK terror group is suffering the heaviest blows in its history, Anadolu Agency reported.
Speaking in Geneva while receiving European representatives of the International Democrat Union, Recep Tayyip Erdogan praised Turkey’s anti-terror operations in Syria.
“The PKK terror group, both inside our borders and outside, is receiving the heaviest blows in its history,” he stressed.
Erdogan said that by conducting three anti-terror operations in Syria over the last three years, Turkey destroyed the terror corridor the PKK was attempting to establish on the country’s southern border.
He added that Turkey’s anti-terror operations were also a “critical step” towards guaranteeing the territorial integrity of Syria.
Erdogan is in Geneva to attend the first-ever Global Refugee Forum between Dec 16-18.
In its more than 30-year terror campaign against Turkey, the PKK — listed as a terrorist organisation by Turkey, the US and the European Union — has been responsible for the deaths of over 40,000 people, including women, children and infants. The YPG is the PKK’s Syrian offshoot.
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