Abdullah Gul
Turkish President Abdullah Gul said on Thursday the recent attacks of the terrorist PKK organization had shown that it was acting in panic.
"The latest acts of the terrorist organization are the moves of a group which is in panic and which does not know where it is going," Gul told a conference at the War Academies in Istanbul.
Terrorist attacks in Turkey have escalated over the last couple of weeks as eleven troops were killed in an ambush in southeast Turkey at the weekend. On Tuesday, a roadside bomb rocked a bus carrying military personnel and their families in Istanbul, killing four soldiers and the 17-year-old daughter of an officer.
"The terrorist organization is aware that there will be no room for it soon. This is why it is staging such attacks in panic haste. The world and the terrorist organization should know that Turkey will do anything to remove this menace," Gul said.
Gul said the escalation of the terrorist attacks was a response to Turkey's developing democratic and legal standards which he said considered by the PKK as threat to its existence.
"Because democracy removes areas that terrorism wants to exploit," he said.
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