Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday accused France and Germany of obstructing Anakara's fight against the Kurdish terrorists, AFP reported.
His accusations come as Turkey has witnessed a sharp escalation of Kurdish rebel attacks targeting its security forces in the southeast in recent months, triggering fully-fledged military operations in the region.
The PKK, which took up arms in the southeast in 1984 sparking a conflict that claimed about 45,000 lives, is blacklisted as a terrorist organisation by Turkey, as well as the European Union and the United States.
Erdogan also lashed out at Scandinavian countries for harbouring the PKK.
Erdogan was referring to PKK financial assets in Europe and the drug trade on which the group is believed to rely on to fund its rebellion.
