Erdoğan aide says Germany smuggling drugs, arms with terrorist PKK

Professor Burhan Kuzu, an advisor to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) Central Decision and Executive Board (MKYK) member, has said Germany is working with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in drug, cigarette and weapons smuggling.
“Another reason why Germany harbors the PKK is their cooperation on drug and cigarette smuggling and arms sales,” said Kuzu in a Twitter message posted on Sunday.
On Nov. 6, in another Twitter message, Kuzu accused Germany of being behind activities in Turkey including the Gezi Park protests of 2013.
“I used to say Germany is behind all evil activities including Gezi, but some people used to say, ‘Come on.’ Have you seen it now?” said.
In another message, Kuzu also accused the German president, prime minister and some lawmakers of supporting the terrorist PKK.
Germany strongly criticized the arrest of Cumhuriyet daily editors and pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputies last week.
Professor Kuzu is notorious for his scandalous tweets, mostly targeting government opponents both at home and abroad.
In October, he argued in a tweet that a Russian jet was shot down by people from the Gülen movement on Nov. 24, 2015, with the knowledge of the United States.
Kuzu also accused Washington of helping all the terrorist organizations in the region: “So-called ally. Of course this was noted somewhere.”
On the 15th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the US, he argued in a tweet that the United States staged 9/11 itself.
In August, Kuzu attacked and slurred Austrian Prime Minister Christian Kern, who questioned Turkey’s European Union and NATO membership, and said: “F..k off, infidel. EU is sinking & NATO is nothing without Turkey.”