Turkey fighting PYD, PKK, al-Nusra, says Erdogan.

Turkey fighting PYD, PKK, al-Nusra, says Erdogan. (Taz).

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has slammed allegations that Turkey is aiding terrorist groups in Syria, saying there are attempts to show Turkey as cooperating with terrorist groups even when Turkey is fighting against terrorist groups in the region, including the Democratic Union Party (PYD), the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and the al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front, Today's Zaman reported.

Speaking during a summit organized by the All Industrialists and Businessmen's Association (TUMSIAD) in Brussels on Tuesday, Erdogan refuted allegations advanced by the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) that the National Intelligence Organization (MİT) was smuggling arms to Syria, especially to the terrorist groups fighting in the country, indicating that it is not possible for Turkey to cooperate with terrorist groups as it has already been fighting against them.

"Now, with the help of the 'parallel state,' there are some attempts to show Turkey as a country supporting terrorism.

Turkey's efforts to transfer humanitarian aid [to Syria] have been prevented. 

While Turkey has been struggling with the PKK and the PYD, while it is struggling with the DHKP/C [Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front], al-Qaeda and al-Nusra, there are some efforts to show Turkey as arm-in-arm with terrorism," Erdogan said in an address to business people.

His remarks came on Tuesday when media outlets reported that Syrian Kurds had declared an autonomous administration whose capital is the Syrian city of Qamishli and which is headed by Ekrem Haso.

The PYD is a political offshoot in Syria of the terrorist PKK, with which the Turkish government launched negotiations at the end of 2012 to settle the country's decades-old Kurdish issue. It also has control of a large portion of Syria's northern territory, which borders Turkey.

Turkey has been expressing its concerns about a Kurdish autonomous region for a long time because it fears such a move on the Syrian side may not only adversely affect the settlement process -- launched for the resolution of the Kurdish issue in Turkey -- but also encourage Kurds in Turkey to establish an independent Kurdish state in southeast Turkey.Hmmmm.....Forgot Gulen And the Zionists.