23 March 2016•Update: 28 March 2016
ISTANBUL
Exploiting European security gaps, Daesh has been sending their terrorists to European countries in the guise of PKK terrorist organization members, Turkish security sources told Anadolu Agency.
An unnamed police source – who spoke on condition of anonymity – said that many Daesh terrorists were found after they first infiltrated the terrorist PKK and then traveled easily to several European countries under this PKK guise.
Those Daesh members, poised to commit bloody terrorist attacks in Europe, were trained in PKK/PYD encampments in Syria and Iraq, the source claimed.
Members of the PKK – also listed as a terrorist organization by the U.S. and EU – have been welcomed in Europe and found it easy to gather financial support.
The Belgian government last week allowed PKK supporters to pitch their tents near the venue of the Turkey-EU summit in Brussels.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu called the display of PKK flags and terrorist posters unacceptable, adding that the issue is not about freedom of expression but is a matter of terrorism.
Belgium’s Ambassador to Turkey Marc Trentesau on Sunday was summoned to the Foreign Ministry to convey the country’s protest over the incident.
The security source who spoke to Anadolu Agency stressed that Daesh cells want to exploit European countries’ lax attitude towards the PKK even though they officially consider it a terrorist organization.
The source also claimed that Daesh members use alcohol, have extramarital affairs, and eat pork products – all forbidden in Islam – in Europe to avoid detection.
Last September Turkish police arrested suspected members of the terrorist organization who were carrying both Daesh and PKK IDs in Izmir, in the Aegean region.
Daesh has claimed responsibility for last November’s Paris attacks that left 137 people dead, and the Brussels bombings that killed at least 31 people on Tuesday.
In the wake of the attacks many European countries have put their terror alert on high, and there have been police raids on suspected terrorists in Belgium and France.
