ANKARA
Turkey’s president has warned that ongoing “terrorist actions and manipulations” are paving the way for social conflict.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan was speaking in Ankara on Wednesday during an international symposium on ombudsmanship.
He said that figures overseas were supporting terrorism in Turkey with the aim of breaking up the country and splitting the nation.
"I am calling on the whole world, not only on my country or my people. What will you gain by dividing Turkey and splitting the people?" said Erdogan.
Following a suicide bomb attack in July -- blamed on Daesh -- in the province of Sanliurfa that killed over 30 people, PKK terrorist organization has renewed its armed campaign against Turkish forces.
The renewed violence has threatened the ‘solution process’ officially initiated in early 2013, aimed at ending the 30-year conflict between the PKK and the Turkish state.
Since July, more than 100 members of the security forces have been martyred and hundreds of PKK terrorists killed in operations across Turkey and northern Iraq, including airstrikes.
- Solution is not 'closing doors' to refugees
Erdogan also touched upon the refugee crisis, saying: "Our friends in Europe should be sure of that the people who come to their borders... [their] end goal is not staying in your country.
"Actually, these people want to reach their own country and homeland. But living in their countries is impossible. The solution to the refugee problem is not closing doors to these people, nor putting up chain fencing or walls to the borders."
The refugee crisis has put Europe’s border-free Schengen agreement under pressure as many EU countries, particularly those in central and eastern Europe, remain reluctant to accept tens of thousands of refugees.
