PM Erdoğan points to the economic benefits of ending the Kurdish issue, noting that violence has cost the country $300 billion in 30 years
Terrorism has cost Turkey $300 billion in the last three decades, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğansaid while opening the Turkish stock market on April 5.
"Terror has cost Turkey around $300 billion over the past 29 years, according to a calculation ... Terror has taken lives and also targeted the economy. I hope we will save lives as well as bringing life to the economy with the solution process we are passing through," Erdoğan said.
He underlined that many investments had failed to be realized in Turkey due to fears created by terror.
The statement came at a time when the government is making efforts to find a peaceful solution to the Kurdish issue and meetings are being done with the imprisoned leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), Abdullah Öcalan.
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