ANKARA
Cicek recalled that Turkish Premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan was currently paying a visit to Germany, and said that it was important to increase cooperation and to be in contact all the time, adding that Turkish presence in Germany was a bridge between the two countries.
Speaking about terrorism issue, Cicek said that one of the top problems for Turkey was PKK terrorist organization, adding that Europe was the continent which gave the most support to PKK.
Noting that PKK had a very wide activity area in Germany according to annual reports of German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Cicek said that the reports wrote that 11,500 PKK terrorists were active in Germany.
Cicek said that also 2012 report of Europol showed that PKK was gathering an important amount of source and members in Europe, adding that PKK was killing people in Turkey by weapons and in Europe by illicit drugs.
German minister said that she was happy to be in Turkey, adding that there had been a good cooperation between the two countries for a long time.
She said that Germany was closely following the new constitution activities and judicial reforms in Turkey.
