19/10/2011 President
Strasbourg, 19.10.2011 – Kostyantyn Gryshchenko, Chairman of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, and Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), today issued the following joint statement:
“We are outraged by the terrorist attacks in south-east Turkey, which have resulted in the deaths of at least 26 Turkish soldiers. We condemn in the strongest terms the authors of these horrendous acts, as well as yesterday’s attack on police officers.
Terrorists will never achieve their ends through violence and bloodshed. They do not defend ideas, they seek only to propagate hatred and barbarity. Their acts are a crime against us all.”