Turkish spox slams Washington Post for PKK propaganda

ANKARA

Turkey’s presidential spokesman on Wednesday slammed the U.S.-based Washington Post newspaper for publishing an article by so-called leader of the PKK terror organization.

The Washington Post, which provided space for a terrorist that is on the list of terror organizations of the U.S. and the EU as well as awarded a prize by the U.S. administration, openly makes propaganda for terrorism and violates the U.S. laws, Ibrahim Kalin said in a written statement.

Asserting that this article did not come into the fold of freedom of press and expression, Kalin said the daily's actions were tantamount to publishing an article from a member of the Al-Qaeda or Daesh terrorist organizations.

To portray the head of a terrorist organization as the representative of the Kurds is, above all, an insult to the Kurds, Kalin said.

He stressed that Turkey would pertinaciously continue to fight against all forms of terrorism and its supporters.

*Writing by Burak Bir