Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has claimed that European countries support terrorists and threatened “The terrorist snake you are breeding with your hands will one day turn against you and bite you. You will understand the mistake you commit when bombs will explode on your streets, terrorists will use their guns and vandals will start to ravage.”
Speaking at the Turkish Parliament, Erdogan slammed Europe claiming “Turkey has lost two dozen civilians and nine troops at the hands of YPG terrorists, and more than 700 attacks have taken place against the Turks living abroad, but no leader calling on him to stop the operation has expressed his or her sorrow over Turkey’s losses.”
Reason for Erdogan’s attack are the protests across Europe against the Operation in North Syria.
“Many of them are at NATO with us. Many of them are at the EU that we negotiate with (for full membership), but all these (anti-Turkey) protests are taking place in their countries under the control of the police. Any sound from them? No. Seventy-nine of these protests targeted our flag, our missions, mosques, associations or our citizens,” he added.
On the return of the Syrian refugees, Erdogan said there was a proposal tabled by prominent European countries to hold a four-party meeting with the participation of Turkey, Germany, France and the United Kingdom.
“There are three venues where such a meeting can be held: Either in Gaziantep, Şanlıurfa or Istanbul. If you want to discuss the refugee issue then you should come to Gaziantep or Sanlıurfa as the incident is taking place here,” he said.
Hinting that German Chancellor Angela Merkel proposed that he visits Berlin for such a meeting, Erdogan said, “What does Berlin have to do with it? Am I a tourist? You should better come here and maybe you can see the situation along the border with your own eyes.”
If this meeting cannot take place in Turkey in November, then four leaders can come together on the sidelines of NATO’s 70th-anniversary summit in London on Dec. 3 and 4, hurriyetdailynews notes.
Obviously deeply shocked, offended and furious about the US House of Representatives resolution recognizing the Armenian Genocide, Erdogan said that he has not yet made up mind over possible visit to US scheduled for Nov. 13, state-run news agency Anadolu reported on Wednesday afternoon.
