Erdoğan: Terror supporters should be stripped of their citizenship

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said that Turkey should take all the measures against terror supporters, referring to supporters of the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) organization.

"We have loss of lives but killed 10, 20, 30 times more than we lost. We should be throwing them (PKK supporters) out of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey or even denaturalize them. These people cannot be MPs or citizens of Turkey. The parties of assembly should do what is needed to pave the way for the MPS to be tried," said Erdoğan.

"Academician-looking supporters, journalist-looking spies, politician-looking activists, civil servant-looking militias are no different from terrorists with bombs in their hands. We don't have to carry the weight of these people on our shoulders," he added.

Erdoğan also touched upon his visit to United States and said that the supporters of Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA), PKK, Democratic Union Party (PYD), parallel state and Atatürk Thought Association, people from different groups were there together, yelling at him before he was to make a speech at the Brookings Institution.

"They criticized us harshly and claimed that our security interfered with the group. However, a man who threatens US President Barack Obama can get 3 years in jail. I have been threatened many times like that. And then people call the US a 'heaven of freedom'," he said.

"We witnessed the members of the terrorist organization and Armenian resistance movement acting together in America. We have also seen the parallel state members in the bureaucracy, the business sector, non-governmental organizations. We know their hostility and we should be cautious of them," Erdoğan added.