“Claims that our country might possibly have used chemical weapons do not reflect reality. As a signatory to the Chemical Weapons Convention since 1997, our country does not produce, possess or use chemical weapons,” the Foreign Ministry statement said late on Friday.
German magazine Der Spiegel reported on Thursday that some PKK members had handed over photos of eight PKK terrorists, supposedly killed in September 2009, to a German human rights delegation comprised of Turkey experts, journalists and politicians from the extreme-left Left Party and that a forensics report released by the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf confirmed the suspicions, arguing that “it is highly probable that the eight Kurds died due to the use of chemical substances.”
The Foreign Ministry statement urged those who suspect Turkey of using such weapons to seek further details from international institutions. “These kinds of claims shows that the PKK terrorist organization aims to distort the extraordinary efforts of our security forces against terrorism within the bounds of the rule of law,” the statement noted.
