Erdogan calls on NATO to do more in fighting terrorism
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says NATO has to do more in fighting terrorism days after a terror attack blamed on Daesh killed 45 people at Istanbul’s main airport.
Erdogan made the remarks ahead of his departure to Poland’s capital, Warsaw, where he was scheduled to attend a summit with NATO leaders on Friday.
“As a NATO country, we want fellow members not to forget about Turkey,” he said.
Erdogan explained that since “the concept of a security threat is undergoing a serious change…NATO needs to be more active and has to update itself against the new security threats.”
“As we have seen from the terrorist attacks first in Istanbul and then in Iraq and Saudi Arabia, international security is becoming more fragile,” he added.
Erdogan said he would press the leaders of fellow NATO countries to do more to fight terrorist attacks in his country.
NATO member Turkey has been rocked by several deadly attacks this year.
The latest which occurred on Tuesday, June 28, at Istanbul’s Atatürk international airport, was the deadliest in a string of attacks in the Middle Eastern country this year.
The violence, which is blamed on both Daesh terrorists and Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK) militants, has crippled Turkey’s tourism industry.
Turkey stands accused of actively training and arming the Takfiri elements in Syria and facilitating their safe passage into the Arab country which has been gripped by foreign-sponsored militancy since March 2011.
Turkish military has also been conducting a large-scale military campaign against PKK militants in its southern border region since last year.
Several NATO member states have joined a US-led coalition purportedly targeting Daesh bases in Iraq and Syria since 2014.
However, the military campaign has so far failed to eliminate the terror group, killing, instead, many civilians and destroying infrastructure in the two Arab states.
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