VIENNA (A.A) - 20.05.2002 - State Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Devlet Bahceli, who is currently in Vienna for a special visit, attended Austria Turkish Federation congress on Sunday evening.
Speaking at the congress, Bahceli said that the important thing was to oppose to terrorist organizations honestly and together.
He said that terrorism was a crime against humanity and added that terrorism was not be connected with nationality, religion and innocence.
Bahceli said that the double standards and hidden intent approaches constituted the policies which had been implemented against Turkey for 40 years.
Bahceli stated that the European Union (EU) administrations wanted continuously Turkey to fulfil definite pre-conditions, however the union refrained from to fulfil its responsibilities which EU undertook for Turkey.
Criticizing the EU's Cyprus policy, Bahceli said that the EU continuously ignored Turkey's right demands and expectations on Cyprus issue and fighting against terrorism.
Bahceli said that it was known that many European countries provided the terror organization which caused sufferings and used acts of violence as a tool and committed crime against humanity in Turkey for 15 years clearly with the possibility of development and shelter.
He asked why the EU included PKK, which the union could not perceive for 15 years, in the list of terrorist organization today. He added that the basic reason in the change of EU's attitude was comprehension of the dimension of the problem or the game of a name change.
Bahceli said, ''firstly, those issues and questions should be brought to the light and the double standard policies against Turkey should be given up. Expecting our European friends to implement an active and determined fight against terrorist organizations which harm our democracy and social solidarity is a natural right of Turkey. This fight should be against all terrorist organizations. We demand and expect EU administration to fulfil this understanding and determined approach.''
Bahceli will come back to Turkey on Monday.