{"id":20392,"date":"2010-07-05T18:26:04","date_gmt":"2010-07-05T16:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=20392"},"modified":"2012-08-05T17:01:59","modified_gmt":"2012-08-05T14:01:59","slug":"turkey-chides-europe-over-kurdish-terror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2010\/07\/05\/turkey-chides-europe-over-kurdish-terror\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey chides Europe over Kurdish ‘terror’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
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First Published 2010-06-24<\/span><\/p>\n

On the border with Iraq, where PKK attacks are launched<\/span>
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\nErdogan: some EU sates ‘failed to cut’ financial channels of PKK ‘terrorist organisation’.<\/span>
\nISTANBUL – Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan slammed European countries Wednesday for inadequate support against separatist Kurdish militants, Anatolia news agency reported.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Unfortunately, some European countries have failed to give Turkey the required support in its long-running struggle against terrorism,” Erdogan told a gathering of Balkans leaders in Istanbul, according to Anatolia.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Despite bloody attacks against civilians and security forces (in Turkey), there are countries which have failed to cut the financial channels of the terrorist organisation, turned a blind eye to its activities and propaganda and failed to extradite criminals,” he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Erdogan was referring to the separatist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), listed as a terrorist group by Ankara and much of the international community, including the EU.<\/span><\/p>\n

The PKK has an extensive support network among Kurdish immigrants in Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n

Erdogan’s remarks followed Tuesday’s bombing of a bus carrying army personnel in Istanbul, which killed four soldiers and a teenage girl.<\/span><\/p>\n

Radical Kurdish militants claimed responsibility for the blast, the latest episode in surging Kurdish rebel violence across Turkey.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ankara has long accused EU countries of tolerating PKK activities on their soil and failing to close down organisations affiliated to the rebels.<\/span><\/p>\n

It says the PKK obtains much of its finances through drug trafficking, people-smuggling, extortion and money laundering in Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n

Many Kurds were granted political asylum in European countries, notably in the 1990s, when the prosecution of activists opposed to Ankara’s heavy-handed policies against its sizeable Kurdish minority was a common occurrence.<\/span><\/p>\n

Copenhagen notably has long angered Ankara for refusing to shut down a Denmark-based Kurdish television channel, Roj TV, which Turkey says is a PKK mouthpiece.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2007, Turkey slammed Austria for failing to arrest a senior PKK member wanted on an Interpol bulletin, allowing him instead to board a plane for northern Iraq, where the PKK enjoys safe haven.<\/span><\/p>\n

The PKK took up arms for self-rule in Turkey’s Kurdish-majority southeast in 1984, sparking a conflict that has claimed some 45,000 lives.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First Published 2010-06-24 On the border with Iraq, where PKK attacks are launched Erdogan: some EU sates ‘failed to cut’ financial channels of PKK ‘terrorist organisation’. ISTANBUL – Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan slammed European countries Wednesday for inadequate support against separatist Kurdish militants, Anatolia news agency reported. “Unfortunately, some European countries have failed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":29652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[1280],"class_list":["post-20392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-turkey","tag-pkk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}