Turkey in all-out-fight against terrorism - president Gül

Turkish President Abdullah Gül has said Turkey is involved in a countrywide fight against terrorism, after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said the recent attack on the country’s western coast was “another example of terrorism’s spread,” Hurriyet reports

“We are going to continue our fight against terrorism not only in certain areas but all around our country,” Gül said to reporters yesterday at the Ege University Medical School Hospital, after visiting soldiers who were injured in a terrorist attack in Foça, İzmir yesterday. “We are going to continue our fight against these people, who commit the most despicable acts of terrorism, even on this holy Ramadan day, against civilians and military personnel alike.”

One Turkish soldier was killed and 11 were injured on Aug. 9, when a landmine allegedly planted by members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) exploded as a military bus was passing on a road in the Foça district of İzmir. It is important that not only the Turkish public but the world sees what “humanity” means to the people who commit these attacks against civilians and soldiers alike on a holy day, Gül said. “They already have [seen]. We have validity and superiority in this sense. This fight will continue with determination and perseverance. … I want everyone to know this.”