ANKARA - "Turkey revises measures to be taken regarding fight against terrorism. Turkey will take additional measures if necessary. We are decided to take additional steps. Our government is resolute to do whatever necessary," said Government Spokesman & Justice Minister Cemil Cicek said on Monday.
After the meeting of Council of Ministers, Cicek said foreign policy and security issues were discussed at the meeting.
Noting that Iraq was high on their agenda, Cicek said "Turkey is interested in this issue because this threat --that violates peace, country's integrity, law and order in Turkey's national borders-- has its roots in Iraq. And we will be interested in it to the bitter end."
Cicek said tomorrow's National Security Council meeting will discuss this issue too.
"In Turkey, everybody knows that terrorist activities would not occur if these activities were not supported by external powers," Cicek said.
Another subject of the cabinet meeting was the bills criminalizing denial of so-called Armenian genocide, Cicek noted.
Stating that an EU draft framework decision will come up on April 18th and 19th during Germany's presidency, Cicek said a draft will be discussed which would inflict imprisonment up to three years for denial (of so-called Armenian genocide) remarks. Cicek stressed that this draft would remove freedom of expression, noting that it would even remove the research opportunity of historical facts.
Cicek stated that Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will bring up this matter during his visit to Germany this weekend.
"This draft is a quite big mistake," he added.