- Turkey’s Prime Minister has criticised two England-based media organisations for not defining the separatist group the PKK as terrorists in their stories.
After taking part in a one minute’s silence to commemorate the victims of the July 7 bombings in London, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan launched a stinging attack against the British Broadcasting Corporation and the Reuters news agency.
“I condemn and curse the BBC and Reuters agencies for describing the PKK as militants,” he said. “I call on the world media to be objective. If this attitude continues terror strikes in Turkey would hit them and their children,” he said.
The British Broadcasting Corporation and British international news agency Reuters define the terrorist organisation as a militant group.
Erdogan said that the mentality of “My terrorist is bad, yours is good,” is a threat to humanity.
“We are a country that paid the price for this since 1978 and made a sacrifice of 40,000 lives,” he said.
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