Türkiye gets support when fighting ISIS but not PKK: AK Party
ISTANBUL (AA) – Türkiye gets support when there is an operation against ISIS but not in operations against the PKK, the spokesman for the Justice and Development (AK) Party said Thursday.
Omer Celik emphasized during a televised interview that if counter-terrorism operations were not carried out on Türkiye’s border, terrorist structures would exist as statelets there.
Celik said the PKK’s course of action in Syria and Iraq is obviously guided by an entity that transcends the terrorist organization.
“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 said.
He said the threat at Türkiye’s frontiers would have increased if the Russia-Ukraine war had not taken place.
“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 said.
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