A member of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) deployed to Turkey to monitor the constitutional referendum, German lawmaker Andrej Hunko, was found to be a supporter of the Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK).
Hunko, a lawmaker of the German Left Party (Die Linke) was discovered to have previously attended demonstrations held by the PKK. He was sent as part of the OSCE delegation to Turkey’s southeastern Diyarbakır province, where thousands of civilians have been killed by PKK terrorists, despite being a PKK sympathizer.
Chairman of the Committee on Human Rights Inquiry and lawmaker for Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) slammed the OSCE for sending a PKK supporter to Turkey to observe the referendum, and demanded that the OSCE issue an apology.
Hunko pushed the German parliament to remove the PKK from the list of recognized terrorist organizations, and has participated in rallies in support of the terrorist group.
The PKK is listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the European Union and the United States and has been conducting armed violence in the southeast of Turkey since 1984.
The observers from the OSCE, Europe’s leading human rights body, were condemned for issuing a biased and prejudiced report.
The Turkish Foreign Ministry criticized the OSCE report for its politically charged comments that disregarded principles of objectivity and impartiality.
More than 40,000 people, mostly civilians, have been killed in the three-decade long conflict waged by the PKK in Turkey.
