Turkish President Says Turkey To Do Everything To Eradicate Terrorism

ANKARA - The Turkish president said on Thursday that Turkey would do everything to eradicate terrorism.
Turkey's President Abdullah Gul said that Turkey would do everything in its power to eradicate the terrorist organization PKK.
"Turkey will go on its democratic moves in a determined way, and at the same time it will do everything in its power to eradicate the terrorist organization," Gul told the private ATV channel.
Gul said that there was not even a single reason that could justify terrorism, and it was impossible to tolerate terrorism.
The president said that all citizens were equal and had same rights in Turkey under the constitution.
Gul said that the reason of rise in terrorist attacks from time to time in Turkey was that the terrorist organization "was getting use of the neighboring country".
The terrorist organization had the opportunity to use the neighboring country as a logistic base due to the authority vacuum in that country, Gul said.
"What is important is to eradicate terrorism, or to minimize it if you cannot eradicate it, and to test every means for this goal," the president said.
Gul said that the most important thing was to isolate the terrorist organization and that could be done by democracy, and underlined importance of cooperation in fight against terrorism.
"Considering that they (terrorists) are in Iraq, Turkey will naturally improve its relations with Iraq and make demands," he said.
Gul said that as a big country, Turkey had no complex and it could talk with every one.
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