The Turkish Foreign Ministry building in Ankara. (Photo: Today’s Zaman, Ali Ünal)
The Turkish Foreign Ministry on Friday accused the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) of supporting terrorism in its recent report on the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), a group recognized as terrorist by European Union countries.
In a statement posted on its website, the Foreign Ministry said the report contained “propaganda material” for the PKK.
“Such a report on an organization that is recognized as a terrorist group by many countries including first and foremost the EU countries is open support of terrorism,” the statement said.
The BBC report, broadcast on Aug. 19, is based on a visit to a woman’s PKK training camp in the Kandil Mountains, where Yazidi and Kurdish women are trained to fight against the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). It follows a Yazidi woman who escaped ISIL captivity and joined the PKK.
The Foreign Ministry said the report, which depicted a designated terrorist organization as an “innocent group fighting a terrorist group” and “encouraged recruitment in the PKK,” was “unacceptable” and “in violation of UN and EU resolutions” that ban encouraging and praising terrorism.
Turkey began pounding PKK targets in northern Iraq and Turkey on July 24 after the PKK killed two policemen, apparently in retaliation for a suicide bombing on July 20 that killed 33 pro-Kurdish activists and was blamed on ISIL. The PKK has stepped up its attacks on the security forces since then, with a settlement process launched in 2012 to resolve the Kurdish issue peacefully effectively being shelved.
The Foreign Ministry said the PKK has killed 64 people, injured 350 and kidnapped 16 over the past month.
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Τζιχαντιστές
του Ισλαμικού Χαλιφάτου αποκεφάλισαν αρχαιολόγο στην αρχαία συριακή
πόλη της Παλμύρας και κρέμασαν το σώμα του από έναν κίονα στην κεντρική
πλατεία του ιστορικού χώρου, είπε ο επικεφαλής της αρχαιολογικής
υπηρεσίας της Συρίας την Τρίτη.
Με
αμείωτη ένταση συνεχίζεται η έρευνα της Διεύθυνσης Ιστορίας Στρατού,
πάνω στο υλικό που έχει στη διάθεσή της σχετικά με τις καταστροφές που
προκάλεσαν οι Ναζί στην Ελλάδα, κατά την διάρκεια του Β Παγκοσμίου
Πολέμου.
Ένα
εύστοχο σχόλιο, ανήκε στην Έμα Κόουλ: «Ποιος θα το φανταζόταν»,
αναρωτιόταν η Βρετανή συγγραφέας στο twitter, «ότι οι άνθρωποι θα
περίμεναν στην ουρά για να παρακολουθήσουν μια δεκαπεντάωρη ανάγνωση της
Ιλιάδας;».
