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Erdoğan: Turkey to hold to account parties supplying weapons to PKK/PYD terrorists

Ersin Çelik
17:02 - 25/06/2017 Sunday
Update: 17:43 - 25/06/2017 Sunday
REUTERS
Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan dismissed on Sunday as a trick a reported U.S. promise that weapons supplied to the PKK/PYD terror organization in northern Syria would be returned after the defeat of Daesh.

"The ones who think they are tricking Turkey by saying they are going to get back the weapons that are being given to this terrorist organisation will realise that they are making a mistake eventually," Erdoğan said in a speech in Istanbul.

He said Ankara would hold to account any party which supplied arms to PKK/PYD terrorists if "any bullet is fired into Turkey".

The PYD is an extension of the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) organization, which is listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the U.S., and the EU. It has waged a terror campaign against Turkey for more than 30 years, during which more than 40,000 people have lost their lives.

More than 1,200 people, including security force personnel and civilians, have lost their lives since the PKK-- listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the U.S., and EU -- resumed its decades-old armed campaign in July 2015.

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