(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Turkey's foreign minister accused Germany on Tuesday of allowing "terrorist organisations" including Kurdish PKK militants and an armed group that have carried out attacks in Turkey to operate freely in the country.
Mevlut Cavusoglu claimed Berlin permitted the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and Marxist-Leninist Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C), both of which have carried out armed attacks in Turkey, to operate on German soil with impunity.
"The DHKP-C and PKK are carrying out activities in Germany, but they support those because they are against Turkey. Germany is the country that supports terrorist organisations against Turkey the most," Cavusoglu told a news conference in Ankara.
"Germany thinks that they are a first-class country, a first-class democracy, and that Turkey is second class. We want them to treat us as equal partners," he said.
Exiled Turkish and Kurdish political movements have long embedded themselves in the diaspora communities in Turkey.
On Saturday, an Istanbul MP called on Turkish people in Germany to withdraw their savings in the country following the Germany government's condemnation of last week's arrest of MPs from the People's Democracy Party (HDP), whom the Turkish government has accused of having links to the PKK.
"What is Germany's aim in supporting the terror group in Turkey?" said Istanbul MP Metin Kulunk.
"Turkish non-governmental organisations in Germany should seek their rights against the country that insults the Turkish state."
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8 November 2016 - 13:42
News ID: 790603
Turkey's foreign minister accused Germany on Tuesday of allowing "terrorist organisations" including Kurdish PKK militants and an armed group that have carried out attacks in Turkey to operate freely in the country.
