Supporters of the terrorist organization PKK attacked Turkish citizens in Belgium. Statements were made one after another from Turkey regarding the escalating events, and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan reacted harshly.
After the events, Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo made a statement in front of the cameras. “In our country, people can think freely and have the right to express their opinions freely.” said Croo. “However, we cannot allow them to share these thoughts in order to support a terrorist organization. PKK is considered a terrorist organization in Europe.” said.
Here are the highlights from Coo’s statement:
“Dear Turkish citizens and representatives residing in different cities and regions of our country, people in our country can think freely and have the right to express their thoughts freely.
“WE CANNOT ALLOW”
However, we cannot allow them to share these thoughts in order to support a terrorist organization. PKK is considered a terrorist organization in Europe. However, we need to give a very clear message here.
“IT MUST BE ENDED”
This provocation and violence must stop immediately. Here I call on all parties to end this provocation. I call for an end to any statements made in support of this terrorist organization.
I invite everyone to be calm again and I want everyone to continue living in harmony in our country again. I have always had this thought in the past. “I hope that peace will return as soon as possible.”
WHAT HAPPENED?
A group of approximately 150 supporters of the terrorist organization PKK/YPG dismantled the barricades in front of the European Parliament in Brussels and attacked the police on March 25.
The crowd, who wanted to walk first to the street where Turkey’s Brussels Embassy is located, and then to Schuman Square, where the European Union institutions are located, encountered police obstacles.
Supporters of the organization, who continued their violent incidents in the country, also caused chaos in the village of Cheratte in Liege, where the majority of the population is Turks, during the same night. The group that set the Ülkü Ocakları building on fire also attacked the mosque and broke its windows.
The group, who covered their faces and walked around the streets shouting slogans in favor of the terrorist organization, damaged houses, shops and vehicles belonging to Turks.
Eyewitnesses reported that the police did not intervene in the events.
On March 24, PKK supporters, returning from the so-called celebrations related to Nevruz in the city of Heusden-Zolder, about an hour away from Brussels, drove around with pieces of cloth symbolizing the terrorist organization PKK and posters of leader Abdullah Öcalan in their cars, passing through the street where citizens of Turkish origin were concentrated. had passed.
Citizens of Turkish origin living in the city reacted to this, and then a brawl broke out.