(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) If a terrorist group had murdered teachers and children anywhere
else in the world, as the PKK did in Türkiye, it would have been
talked about for months, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday
while he also slammed politicians who act as the spokespeople of
the terrorist group in Parliament, trend reports citing daily sabah .
'Those who entered Parliament one way or another and then wander
around the mountains arm in arm with terrorists in Qandil cannot be
the representatives of this nation's votes,' Erdogan said in
reference to the pro-PKK Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP).
The president also lashed out at international politicians,
non-governmental organizations, and media for their lack of
reaction against the latest PKK-linked terror attacks that killed
three civilians, including a child and a teacher, in southeastern
Türkiye.
'If the terrorist organization had murdered teachers and
children in such a heinous way anywhere, it would have dominated
the agenda for days, weeks, and months,' said Erdogan in a speech
at an event marking International Day for the Elimination of
Violence Against Women.
Last week, at least three people, including a child and a
teacher, were killed in multiple rocket attacks by the PKK terror
group's Syrian branch YPG in Türkiye's southeastern Gaziantep
province.
'When it comes to Türkiye, apart from the messages of
crocodile-tear-like condemnations, neither politicians, NGOs, nor
the media make any significant noise about it,' Erdogan said.
He also decried the failure of Western human rights defenders to
side with Diyarbakır mothers, a group of mothers protesting and
seeking the return of their children that they say were kidnapped
by the PKK terror group.
'Where are the global human rights groups? Do they ever come and
visit the mothers in Türkiye whose children were kidnapped by the
PKK terrorists?' Erdogan asked during the speech in Istanbul.
International politicians, nongovernmental organizations and the
media have nothing meaningful to offer when it comes to terror
attacks in Türkiye, he added.
A groundbreaking anti-terror protest in Türkiye's southeastern
province of Diyarbakır entered its fourth year as families hold
their ground and refuse to leave until they are reunited with their
children who they say were abducted by the PKK terrorist group.
Since Sept. 3, 2019, families whose children were allegedly
abducted or forcibly recruited by the PKK have camped outside the
Diyarbakır offices of the HDP, a party the Turkish government said
has links with the terror group and is currently facing a closure
case in the nation's highest court.
The protest spread to other provinces both at home and abroad,
including the eastern Turkish provinces of Mush and Van, and all
the way to Berlin. However, the protest in the German capital was
short-lived due to governmental indifference.
The PKK terror group, battered and demoralized by Turkish
security forces' successful operations, has been in recent years
losing members and failing to attract recruits, according to
Turkish officials.
Criticizing the failure of Western human rights advocates to do
anything to help the group of mothers protesting the PKK in
Diyarbakır, Erdogan had said the families' resistance enabled the
gradual return of their children.