The Turkish chief of general staff Yasar Guler has raised Sunday’s terrorist attack at Istanbul’s iconic Istiklal Avenue with his US counterpart Mark Milley.
Guler held a phone call with Milley on Monday and bandied the deadly attack that left six people dead and 81 others injured.
In a statement, US Joint Staff spokesperson Col. Dave Butler said the two army chiefs “reaffirmed the strength of our( US- Türkiye) bilateral military relationship” in the call.
Sunday’s deadly explosion that took place on Istiklal Avenue in the Beyoglu quarter was carried out by the YPG/ PYD/PKK terrorist organisation, according to Turkish authorities. The suspect, a Syrian woman, has been arrested, said Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu.
For Ankara, Washington’s continued support for cells of the PKK terror group in the name of fighting Daesh in Syria has long been a sore point between the two NATO abettors.
A report published in July, named “European Union Terrorism Situation and Trend Report 2022,” notes that the PKK and its cells continued its propaganda, kick, reclamation, and fundraising conditioning throughout Europe despite Covid- 19 and that PKK members have been set up involved in “systematized crime similar plutocrat laundering, wrongdoing, highway robbery, and medicine trafficking”.
Türkiye has been determined to move European leaders to exclude the presence of the PKK and its cells from the mainland.
The Turkish leadership has constantly raised expostulations of Sweden and Finland’s NATO class flings following the outbreak of the Ukraine conflict, criticising the countries for permitting and indeed supporting terrorist groups similar to the PKK and the Fetullah Terrorist Organisation(FETO).
In its further than 35- time terror crusade against Türkiye, the PKK – listed as a terrorist organisation by Türkiye, the US, and the European Union – has been responsible for the deaths of further than,000 people, including women, children, and babies. The YPG is its Syrian offshoot.
