AK Party spokesman says Türkiye receives support after fighting Daesh/ISIS but not PKK
Date
12/4/2022 7:50:06 AM
(MENAFN) Türkiye gets support when there is an operation targeted at Daesh/ISIS but not in operations against the PKK terrorist group, the spokesman for the Justice and Development (AK) Party made a statement on Thursday.
Omer Celik stressed during a televised interview that if counter-terrorism operations were not started on Türkiye's frontier, terrorist structures would exist as statelets there.
Celik added the PKK's course of action in Syria and Iraq is obviously led by an organization that transcends the terrorist group.
“Who is this? We are talking about whether it is a more collective structure. Judging by the way things are going, it seems to have received strong support. We've seen this before in Afghanistan. The US used Russia. There was a proxy war,” he further stated.
He continued the warning at Türkiye's borders would have went up if the Russia-Ukraine conflict had not happened.
“If the Russia-Ukraine war had not occurred, imagine the equation where there is no war today. The threat on our borders would have grown even more.
“After all, it is not a choice but an existential necessity for Türkiye when it is threatened, including a distance of 30 kilometers from our border, to deploy and strike,” he went on to say.
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