Turkish PM demands PKK, Daesh be treated similarly

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Thursday that the international community did not react to the terrorist organisation PKK the way it did to Daesh.

Davutoglu is set to attend a counter-terrorism summit hosted by US President Barack Obama in New York on September 29 on the sidelines of a UN general assembly meeting.

“We will mention the importance of the necessity of struggling with all kinds of terrorism with equal determination, during the summit,” Davutoglu told reporters at the Esenboga International Airport in Ankara before leaving for the US “For us, terror has neither a religion nor an ethnic identity.”

Davutoglu also expressed his condolences to the families of the pilgrims who died in a stampede that occurred near the city of Makkah in Saudi Arabia.

At least 717 Hajj pilgrims were killed on Thursday – and at least 800 injured – in the stampede. The stampede occurred in the town of Mina, located roughly five kilometres east of Makkah, shortly after pilgrims had performed a ritual in which they threw stones at a structure representing the devil.