By Cihan News Agency
Thursday, December 14, 2006
The United States has started a new, wide-scale initiative to kill off the financial resources of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in Europe.
U.S. Principal Deputy Coordinator for Counterterrorism Frank Urbancic said that definite progress was made on the issue during his recent visits to Europe.
In an interview with the Turkish channel NTV, Urbancic stated that the new initiative started against the outlawed PKK and his European visits together with other top U.S. officials were all aimed at bringing PKK terrorism under control.
The talks with Europe, said Urbancic, would continue next year as well.
Urbancic compared the PKK to an octopus and pointed out that terrorism was not the only arm of the organization; a money laundering arm, racketeering arm and drug dealing arm were all issues being targeted by the United States.
”We believe that the PKK should be terminated and lay down its weapons. We are not interested in issues such as communicating with the PKK, cease-fire or negotiations” noted the high-ranking U.S. official.
Urbancic also underlined that that the PKK should not be allowed to conduct propaganda in any countries, implying Denmark, known as a supporter of pro-PKK Roj TV.
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