Turkiye will not allow PKK to gain strength under guise of tackling Daesh, FM says

Strengthening the terrorist group PKK under the guise of fighting Daesh will not be allowed, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said yesterday, warning the Western world against supporting the group designated by Ankara as a “terrorist organisation”, Anadolu reported. “The terrorist PKK’s empire of violence built over Kurdish people is on the verge of collapse,” Fidan told a joint news conference, calling on the group to lay down its arms in Syria “as soon as possible.” Turkish officials have long decried US support for the YPG, which Ankara says is the Syrian arm of the PKK. “As long as organisations like Daesh exist, they not only corrupt societies and states, but also pave the way for imperial powers to enter […]