Turkey condemned Thursday the recent killing of a senior Spanish judge and two other people in a car bomb attack attributed to the Basque separatist group ETA.
"Turkey, which is among the countries most severely hit by terrorism, strongly condemns this inhumane attack," a foreign ministry statement said.
"This attack highlights the necessity to eradicate all kinds of terrorism and the fact that this could be done only through a sincere and effective international cooperation," the statement added.
The separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), considered a terrorist organization by Turkey, has waged a 15-year war against the Ankara government. The conflict has claimed some 36,500 lives.
The United States also views the PKK as a terrorist group, but European countries have shied away from defining the organization as such.
Ankara's statement came as a reaction to the murder on Monday of Spanish supreme court judge Francisco Querol Lombardero, his driver and bodyguard in a bomb attack in Madrid that also wounded some 70 people – ANKARA (AFP)
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