Baku, Azerbaijan, June 2
By Rufiz Hafizoglu - Trend:
There is no an ethnic conflict between Turks and Kurds in Turkey, the TRT Haber news channel quoted Turkey's Prime Minister Binali Yildirim as saying June 2.
He pointed out that Turkey has a problem of terrorism, which is aimed at splitting the country.
Turkey will fight terrorism until it is eliminated completely, according to Yildirim.
Earlier, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that over 5,359 PKK members have been eliminated as a result of the operations against this terrorist group since July 2015. The president added that 355 Turkish servicemen were killed during the operations, which will continue until the complete destruction of the PKK.
The conflict between Turkey and the PKK, which demands the creation of an independent Kurdish state, has continued for over 25 years and has claimed more than 40,000 lives. The UN and the European Union listed the PKK as a terrorist organization.
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