The Turkish minister was referring to Muhammet Fatih Safiturk, the governor of Mardin`s Derik district, who succumbed Friday to wounds sustained in a PKK terrorist attack.
“[Martin] Schulz’s threatening statements have no effect on us,” Cavusoglu told reporters in the Turkish capital Ankara following a meeting with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi.
“First, [he] should stop the activities of the PKK in the European Parliament,” Cavusoglu said.
“If he is strong enough, he should be using this discourse against those supporting terror in the EU member countries,” he added.
The Turkish minister said that Schulz would do whatever was necessary to impose economic sanctions against Turkey.
Earlier this month, Martin Schulz, the European Parliament’s president, reacted to the arrest of 11 journalists from the Cumhuriyet daily in Istanbul and Ankara as well as the arrest of lawmakers from Turkey`s opposition Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) on terror charges.
Media reports said he had indicated that the EU could impose sanctions on Turkey following the anti-terror operations.
The PKK -- listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the U.S., and EU -- resumed its decades-old armed campaign in July last year. Since then, more than 300 civilians and nearly 800 security personnel have been martyred. Around 8,000 PKK terrorists have been killed or apprehended.
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