Is the West too soft on Turkey's PKK?

Turkey is warning the West about what it calls threats by the Kurdistan Workers' Party.


There have been a series of attacks across Turkey over the past few months which have largely been carried out by either the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) or fighters linked to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

The PKK was originally formed to fight for an independent Kurdish state and has been at war with the Turkish government for decades.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan noted that while most Western nations consider the PKK a terrorist organisation, they do not go after the group in the same manner they go after ISIL or al-Qaeda.