PKK terrorists disrupt investment, destroy resources across Turkey
Not only has Bloody-minded PKK terror group been waging a terror campaign against Turkish state fore more than three decades, but it has also been carrying out numerous barbarous activities to destroy Turkish investments and nature, especially in eastern and southeastern region of the country. Multiple times, PKK targeted construction sites in eastern Turkey in an attempt to hinder investments and impoverish the region. The poverty of the local Kurdish population in eastern and southeastern Turkey is taken advantage of by the PKK, as the terror group wants to use it as a tool of its recruitment propaganda.
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- Anadolu Agency
- Published Date: 04:01 | 21 February 2019
- Modified Date: 04:20 | 21 February 2019
Terror group PKK has destroyed assets, burned forests and killed workers across Turkey on a wide and systematic scale as part of its strategy to sabotage economic growth in Turkey.
According to information compiled by Anadolu Agency from security sources, PKK, on the one hand, runs an environmental public relations campaign via its affiliated press and social media, while on the other hand, carries out numerous terrorist activities to destroy Turkish investments and nature, especially in eastern and southeastern Turkey.
Destruction of these resources breach international law, including the 1976 Environmental Modification Convention (ENMOD) and the 1977 Additional Protocol I to the 1949 Geneva Convention.
During Turkey's Operation Olive Branch in 2018 that cleared the Syrian border city of Afrin from PKK/YPG, fleeing terrorists burned down hundreds of acres of forest land at the Amanos Mountains in the adjacent southern Turkish province of Hatay.
PKK terrorists also burned forests in the Dörtyol district of Hatay and the Havran district of the Aegean city of Balıkesir.