Soylu: "the United States openly gives arms to the terrorist organization PKK"

"The United States, Turkey's ally for more than 40 years, openly arms the PKK terrorist organization and carries out joint projects with it," said Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu.

Soylu was speaking Thursday at the "International Security Congress" held at the Academy of Gendarmerie and Coast Guard.

He first said that the political, financial and recruitment areas of the terrorist organization PKK are mainly in Europe, adding that the leaders and sub-members of the terrorist organization Gulenist FETO, perpetrated an attempt to coup d'etat in Turkey (July 15), live them in the United States.

"The West, the leading countries, is exploiting terrorism, which is why the world system can not defend itself," he regretted.

"Turkey has been fighting against the PKK terrorist organization for 40 years," said the Turkish minister, recalling that according to the report on the global terrorism index of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, the PKK ranked first among the deadliest terrorist groups in Europe in 2017.

"The PKK has been controlling 80% to 90% of European drug trafficking for many years, and between the years 2009 and 2012, the United States listed twelve so-called PKK leaders as drug traffickers," he said. .

"Despite all this, this same country (the United States), allied with Turkey for more than 40 years, openly gives weapons to the terrorist organization PKK, develops joint projects with him, the form, acts jointly with the PKK / PYD concerning the Syrian affair, "he lashed out.

Soylu went on to say that Turkey, because of its geographical location, must face directly many problems inherent to global security.

"Turkey has more experience, success and knowledge than the world average on terrorism, migration and narcotics issues," he said.

Focusing on Turkey's fight against illegal migration, Soylu said that last year, Turkey intercepted 268,000 irregular migrants and that this figure has already reached 270 miles since the beginning of the year so far.

In addition, he noted the presence of more than 3.6 million Syrians in Turkey, under the temporary protection status.

"The school attendance rate of Syrians in Turkey at primary school is 96.3%," he said adding, "the school enrollment rate of migrants is 61% worldwide."

"The construction of a secure space in Syria accelerates voluntary returns, and in terms of foreign policy, Turkey, through dialogue and consultation, works to build prosperity. operations Shield of the Euphrates and Rameau d'Olivier, 354 thousand Syrians have returned voluntarily to their country until now, "he concluded.

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