Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu slams former US secretary of state Mike Pompeo over his allegations on Türkiye in a recently released book, calling his claims “unreal information” and full of “exaggeration”
Türkiye's foreign minister calls former US Secretary of State's claims as full of"exaggeration" and"double standard" and criticises his views towards PKK and FETO terror groups.
In a press conference in the capital Ankara on Thursday, Cavusoglu said Pompeo's book contains "exaggeration" and "double standard". The PKK is listed as a terrorist organisation by Türkiye, the European Union, the UK, and the US. It has been responsible for the deaths of 40,000 people, including women, children, and infants. The YPG is the PKK’s Syrian branch.
"The only NATO army which took part in hand-to-hand fights against Daesh terrorists is the Turkish army. We eliminated more than 4,500 Daesh terrorists both in Syria and Iraq," Cavusoglu said. "While we were waiting with Pompeo in a different room, Pompeo was uneasy with the fact that the meeting was taking so long and he asked to enter the room, but I said to him that one of them is the president and the other is the vice president.
"But at the end of the day, they did not fulfill the responsibilities arising out of joint declaration and they have shown that they are not honest with their declarations," Cavusoglu said.On Pompeo's professed dislike for a video about the defeated 2016 coup by the Fetullah Terrorist Organization , Cavusoglu said: "We experienced the images in the video that he called disgusting. The FETO terrorist organisation killed 251 citizens that night.
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