Erdoğan has even argued that, in Turkey’s view, the PKK and the Islamic State are the same – mirroring Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s statement that Hamas and the Islamic State were branches of the same tree. With such desperate and unreasonable rhetoric, Erdoğan is lending credence to accusations that the entire “peace process” was simply a ploy to persuade the Kurdish members of Turkey’s parliament to support the constitutional changes that allowed him to move from Prime Minister to President.
埃尔多安甚至指出，在土耳其看来，PKK和伊斯兰国是一样的——这与以色列总理内塔尼亚胡声称哈马斯和伊斯兰国是同一棵树上的两根树枝的说法如出一辙。埃尔多安如此不顾一切的无理言辞不禁让人们怀疑，整个“和平进程”只不过是说服土耳其议会中的库尔德议员支持让他从总理变为总统的宪法改革的伎俩。