Turkey's foreign minister says gvt does not see any difference among citizens

EDIRNE (A.A) -- Turkey's foreign minister said on Friday that the government did not see any difference among the citizens. Ahmet Davutoglu said that Turkey's fight against terrorism was carried out very carefully except Wednesday's exceptional incident across Turkey-Iraq border. "We do not see any difference among our citizens, and every citizen is so valuable for us," Davutoglu told a joint press conference with his Romanian counterpart Teodor Basonschi in the northwestern province of Edirne. Davutoglu said that Turkey had discriminated among civilian people and terrorists in its fight against terrorism both in the country and in cross-border operations, and therefore it would be more correct to handle this issue within the framework of principles of a state of law.  "It is the most correct method to handle this issue as our common agony and issue without making it a matter of exploitation," Davutoglu said.  Thirty-five people were killed and another was wounded when Turkish jets hit a group of people who were seen in an area across Turkey's border with Iraq on Wednesday evening.  Following the operation, a General Staff statement said Turkish military had raised its surveillance and controls across Turkey-Iraq border as it had received an intelligence that the terrorist organization was planning to attack military outposts after their recent losses. "Unmanned aerial vehicles found out that a group was approaching Turkish border from the north of Iraq on Wednesday evening, and Air Forces jets hit the targets between 9:37 and 10:24 p.m. as the group was seen in an area mostly used by terrorists," the statement said. The statement said the incident occurred in Sinat-Haftanin region in the north of Iraq where the main camps of the terrorist organization were situated, and where there was no civilian settlement.  Later in the day, Deputy Chairman of the ruling Justice & Development (AK) Party, Huseyin Celik, said that the group hit by Turkish jets were not terrorists but smugglers. Chief public prosecutor with special authority in the southeastern province of Diyarbakir launched an investigation on Friday regarding the killing of 35 citizens along Turkey-Iraq border. The prosecutor launched a full investigation after 35 citizens were killed in a bombing by the jets of Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) in Sinat-Haftanin region in the north of Iraq which is near Uludere town of Turkey's southeastern province of Sirnak. Turkey's southeast is used by PKK terrorists to illegally sneak into Turkey to stage terrorist attacks.  Since 1984, PKK's terrorist acts resulted in the death of more than 30,000 Turkish citizens, among whom were innocent civilians, teachers and other public servants, many deliberately murdered, and large amount of economic loss. In its history, the terrorist organization also employed suicide-bombing methods, waged mainly by women terrorists in Turkey; and kidnapped foreign tourists in southeastern Anatolia in the early 1990s. In order to damage Turkey's economy, the organization also set forests in Turkey's tourist resorts on fire. The PKK is designated a terrorist group by Turkey, the European Union and the United States.  (Reporting by Gulsen Solaker)